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

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 19 testified “truthfully” they would not send him to prison for the January 2nd mug- ging. Walker ...

“Any bag that can hold all my things becomes too heavy to carry.” was clean-shaven, with short hair and a crisp suit. Phemister ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 21 The couples separated after Smokes and Warren went to prison, but both eventually reunited. In ...

22 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 “might chafe at the prospect of their col- leagues looking over their shoulders, to investigate ...

“Larry! Not my grandmother’s Amish star quilt!” • • tigation; Delgrosso received a five-day suspension. When Delgrosso testified ...

24 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 fiction,” she wrote. But Goldstein’s ex­ pense report included $17.41 for “cig­ arettes and soap ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 25 SHOUTS & MURMURS LUCI GUTIÉRREZ It was a professional football league that lasted for one s ...

26 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 PERSONAL HISTORY UNBUTTONED Father and son. BY DAVIDSEDARIS ILLUSTRATION BY ROSS MACDONALD I was ...

THE NEWYORKER, MARCH 2, 2020 27 been taken from intensive care and put in a regular hospital room. By the time we arrived in Ral ...

slowly collected in the bag attached to my father’s catheter. The room was sweltering. “Was that dinner O.K., Dad?” Lisa asked. ...

THE NEWYORKER, MARCH 2, 2020 29 were clothes from his self-described fat period, from the time he slimmed down, and from the yea ...

30 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 college, etc., I’m worthless. Even his job remains a mystery to me. He was an engineer, and I li ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 31 While eating, we returned to the topic of his obituary, and what would follow. A Greek Orthodox ...

32 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 AREPORTERAT LARGE THE ALTITUDE SICKNESS Mountain climbers are intimately familiar with grief and ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 33 Conrad Anker in Antarctica, in 2017. Dozens of his friends and climbing partners have died in t ...

34 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 the yearly mountaineering awards, for a first ascent of the south face of an infamous tower in P ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 35 “They can’t help but do what they do,” Tim Tate said of the adventure athletes. Concord Navigat ...

tolerance for risk or suffering that any accomplishment on that front would require. My father had lost his father and his siste ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 37 blue beanbag chair.” (He’s now close to his son.) Picture the apostate dis- embarking from the ...

38 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 in an airport: “My hoodie’s up. I’m disappearing. And now here comes this guy, super hungry eyes ...