The_New_Yorker__August_05_2019

58 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 she turned away as she said it. Then she said, “Theodore, would you like a drink of wa ...

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for you,” and the little boy put part of it into his mouth. “Silly thing,” Christo- pher said to him, and pulled it gently. “You ...

60 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 voice murmuring, and Olive thought, Honest to God, what a brat. But Olive was on her c ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 61 The truth was that the car belonged to Jack. When her Honda had needed new brake pads, ...

62 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 woman—and she thought, Who are you, Ann? She knew that the girl had a brother somewher ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 63 “You’re getting married?” His voice was quiet now. In an even quieter voice, he said, “ ...

64 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 it, Chris. Just stop it! Let the woman get married. What’s the matter with you? Jesus! ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 65 Barnum believed the public was willing—even eager—to be conned, provided there was ente ...

66 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 in the mermaid he saw a potential bo- nanza. The thing was an obvious fake— it had bee ...

to thin, he sent Heth and Lyman on to Providence, Boston, and Hartford. The abolitionist movement was strong in New England, so ...

68 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 been valued at thirty-two thousand dol- lars, somehow ended up mortgaged for more than ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 69 The insects are estimated to have killed more people than any other single cause. BOOKS ...

70 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 Shadow of Death”; a German mission­ ary visiting the southern United States wrote that ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 71 highlight reel). Winegard notes that wealthy Romans built their houses on hilltops to e ...

72 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 Disk 38 of the compilation consists largely of crowd noise and announcements. POP MUSI ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 73 stock—Back to the Garden” feels oddly contemporary. So much of our pop-cul- ture packag ...

74 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST 5 &12, 2019 Halley Feiffer translates “Three Sisters” into today’s ditzy online-speak. THETHEATRE ...

THE NEWYORKER, AUGUST 5 & 12, 2019 75 year-old Feiffer gets cheeky with Che- khov’s delicate realism, sending up his habits ...