The_New_Yorker__August_05_2019

5 GOINGSONABOUTTOWN

15 THETALKOFTHETOWN

Amy Davidson Sorkin on Mueller’s testimony;

judging authorship; Manhattan Plaza’s m.c.;

imperfectly perfect produce; on writing.

PROFILES

Ruth Franklin 20 Past Master

Olga Tokarczuk’s novels of Polish identity.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Megan Amram 27 Self-Care for Men

DEPT. OF FINANCE

John Lanchester 28 The Invention of Money

The legacy of two heretical bankers.

ANNALS OF LAW
Connie Bruck 32 Devil’s Advocate
Alan Dershowitz defends himself.
COMIC STRIP
Chris Ware 48 “Mr. Ware”
A day in the life of an art teacher.
FICTION
Elizabeth Strout 56 “Motherless Child”
THECRITICS
BOOKS
Elizabeth Kolbert 65 The fantastical career of P. T. Barnum.
Brooke Jarvis 69 History as the mosquito made it.
71 Briefly Noted
POP MUSIC
Hua Hsu 72 Woodstock fifty years on.
THE THEATRE
Alexandra Schwartz 74 A Chekhov reboot and “Moulin Rouge!”

THE CURRENT CINEMA

Anthony Lane 76 “Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.”

POEMS

Anna Scotti 38 “Where Babies Really Come From”

Ocean Vuong 61 “Almost Human”

COVER

Olimpia Zagnoli “Taste of Summer”

AUGUST 5 & 12, 2019

DRAWINGS Jason Adam Katzenstein, Sam Gross, Zachary Kanin,

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John McNamee, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Liana Finck, Lars Kenseth,

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