The New Yorker – August 19, 2019

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DRAWINGS Paul Noth, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Danny Shanahan, Frank Cotham, Roz Chast, Liana Finck, Maggie Larson, Amy Hwang, Emily Fla ...

CONTRIBUTORS Larissa MacFarquhar (“A House of Their Own,” p. 36), a staff writer, is an Emerson Fellow at New America. She is th ...

THE NEWYORKER, AUGUST 19, 2019 3 “millions who have it worse,” she is en- gaging in a kind of “solipsism.” These accusations per ...

The American artist Mark Dion has developed a unique strain of ecological art, playing the role of amateur naturalist with sculp ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST19, 2019 5 ILLUSTRATION BY ERIN ROBINSON The music promoter and artist manager Doris Muñoz has a secret wea ...

6 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST19, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY ISABELLE ARSENAULT The playwright Bess Wohl has spun drama—and sly comedy—from ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST19, 2019 7 ILLUSTRATION BY HARRIET LEE-MERRION When a major ballet dancer dabbles in other forms, it’s ofte ...

8 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST19, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY LIAM HOPKINS The designers of Central Park intended the Ramble, a thirty-eight ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST19, 2019 9 ILLUSTRATION BY NHUNG LE In 1984, a young photography student named Lisa Spellman (pictured) ope ...

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THENEWYORKER,AUGUST19, 2019 11 PHOTOGRAPH BY KRISTA SCHLUETER FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFORTWO ...

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THENEWYORKER,AUGUST19, 2019 13 COMMENT WORDSANDWOUNDS I n December, 1993, Toni Morrison flew to Stockholm to deliver the lectu ...

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THENEWYORKER,AUGUST19, 2019 17 1 SURVIVORDEPT. MASTERCLASS W hen the cabaret singer Marilyn Maye turned ninety, in April of la ...