The_New_Yorker__August_05_2019

18 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 in Puyallup, Washington, said, “As a farmer, I don’t have the luxury of de- termining ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 19 cal scripts are often considered more advanced than ideographic ones. “We don’t espouse ...

20 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 Olga Tokarczuk is fascinated by Poland ’s long history of ethnic intermingling. PROFIL ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 21 sections are often linked by just a word or an image, allowing readers to dis- cover th ...

to political pressure. Last December, after Król, the Dwutygodnik editor, re­ sisted attempts to censor the magazine, the govern ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 23 family lived on the school grounds, a period Tokarczuk remembers happily. Her father wa ...

24 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 Wilgefortis wanted to become a nun, but her father kidnapped her from a convent and tr ...

“Flights.”) Frank was an eighteenth- century Polish Jew who proclaimed himself as the Messiah. In the seventeen- fifties, he acc ...

26 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 two dogs as companions. One day, the dogs vanished. “I started to ask people what happ ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 27 SHOUTS & MURMURS LUCI GUTIÉRREZ S up, bros?! I’ve got some news for you: self-care ...

28 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 When the system buckles, how do we know what money is really worth? DEPT.OFFINANCE THE ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 29 rency backed by state guarantees—was first created. The hero of that origin story is th ...

banking” that’s normal today. Law’s bank had, by one estimate, about four times as much paper money in circulation as its gold a ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 31 “Greatest” is a loaded word, espe- cially since Grant—who is, among other things, the f ...

32 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 ANNALS OFL AW DEVIL’S ADVOCATE Alan Dershowitz’s long, controversial career—and the ac ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 33 Dershowitz says, “Every honest criminal lawyer will tell you that he defends the guilty ...

34 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 away? We’ve gotta give the book away.” Dershowitz recovered his composure and smiled f ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 35 of two office buildings. Dershowitz’s col- laborators were Harvey Silverglate, a for- m ...

he wrote for Penthouse, that “radical feminists” were using Lovelace to ad- vance an “all-out war against pornog- raphy.” When a ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 37 of John F. Kennedy, had recently been accused of raping a woman on a Ken- nedy family e ...