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THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 19 comes,/Or hath come, since the mak­ ing of the world.” But Tennyson unfolds a single story, whe ...

20 THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 from the most disheartening direction— not yielding to it as a spell by which to be struck and ...

yet not improved, in Pound’s judgment, which is why he took a scalpel to the entire passage. His decisiveness, in grasping what ...

22 THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 times her age—she did not know “The Waste Land.” At last: the ideal recip- ient, as unencumber ...

THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 23 SHOUTS & MURMURS I want to know you. The real you. Everything about you. You captivated me ...

24 THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 PERSONAL HISTORY WHO WILL FIGHT WITH ME? Recovering from a happy childhood can take a long tim ...

THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 25 at the Dillard’s at the Sooner Fashion Mall, my mom and I would page through the folded button- ...

26 THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 through my parents’ discussions of peo- ple nicknamed Mussolini, Idi Amin, and Ceauşescu. He h ...

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Peter Falk. Also, a show with a large balding man called Cannon. And “The Rockford Files,” with James Garner. Gar- ner was from ...

THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 29 mom ate whatever was left over, that no one else wanted. Years later, with- out quite deciding ...

30 THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 AREPORTERAT LARGE THE PALACE GATES Is the Prime Minister of Ethiopia rebuilding his country or ...

THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 31 Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019. A year later, his army was implicated in human-ri ...

32 THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 in which he swore to eliminate “vora- cious feudalists, hired fascists, and run- ning dogs” an ...

for the T.P.L.F., which refused to join. The Tigrayan leadership decamped to northern Ethiopia. In the regional capital of Mekel ...

betrayal. “I couldn’t control my feel- ings,” Berhane said. “I still can’t get it out of my mind.” A biy’s residence—a modernist ...

THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 35 move there, and open the entire com- pound to the public, under its new name: Unity Park. After ...

36 THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 would run them as concessions, and to use them as hubs to develop the countryside. Over dinner ...

THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER3, 2022 37 multuous condition of the United States. “America’s politics have been ruined by entertainment ...

areas. (There were few international media outlets in Ethiopia; correspon- dents from The Economist and the Times, among others, ...