The New Yorker - USA (2020-02-03)

said. And, the next thing we knew, the trucks were there and the men in and out and then the Ballingers were gone. Every one of ...

60 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 she bounced several times. The white cardboard thing around her head had sprung loose, the ed ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 61 make a huge loud racket. Jackie and I were doing it like everybody else, beat- ing away on pots ...

62 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 “I don’t know any scary stories, so I thought we could just watch a bunch of YouTube clips of ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 63 forgotten, standing in the corner of the porch watching my mother witness Jackie’s second encou ...

64 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 THE CRITICS SEEING THINGS Toni Morrison’s profound and unrelenting vision. BY HILTONALS B efo ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 65 Morrison in 1970, the year that her intellectually expansive, spiritually knowing first novel, ...

66 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 then at Howard, in D.C., where she joined a writers’ group and worked on a short story about ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 67 • • She pulled a bobby pin from her hair and began to pick her teeth. That meant she didn’t wan ...

bleaching creams; she’s the woman who undergoes surgery to thin her lips or her nose; she’s the girl who wears col- ored contact ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 69 “The Black Book” was intended, like “The Bluest Eye,” to combat the “Black is beautiful” jingoi ...

70 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 Beneath the vision of “less” as a life style lies a path to something more profound. BOOKS SI ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 71 was sympathetic to it. Estimating the “maximum plausible growth of VS,” they wrote that as many ...

72 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 writing tends to center on phenomena that conjure aspiration, emptiness, and emotional distan ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 73 BRIEFLY NOTED Hymns of the Republic, by S. C. Gwynne (Scribner). In Au- gust, 1864, General Uly ...

74 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 David Alan Grier plays a sergeant who wields his rank as a bludgeon. THETHEATRE FAILING UPWAR ...

THE NEWYORKER, FEBRUARY 3, 2020 75 these two strands: there are awkwardly choreographed scene changes performed by the private ...

76 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 Lowbrow, with high production values, “ The Goop Lab” is a soulful kind of sponcon. ON TELEVI ...

each episode reads, “The following se- ries is designed to entertain and inform— not provide medical advice.”) L ike other celeb ...

78 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY3, 2020 Guy Ritchie’s film is not quite a mystery, or an action flick, or a comedy. THE CURRENT CINEM ...