4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
11 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jelani Cobb on conservatives using migrants as pawns;
a Ukrainian soldier in New York; good-guy paparazzo;
modern fashion; the prolific career of Steve Keene.LIFE AND LETTERS
Anthony Lane 16 On the Rocks
The centenary of “The Waste Land.”
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Rima Parikh 23 I Want to Know YouPERSONAL HISTORY
Rivka Galchen 24 Who Will Fight with Me?
Remembering a father.
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Jon Lee Anderson 30 The Palace Gates
A peace laureate becomes a wartime ruler.PROFILES
Ed Caesar 42 Seize the Night
At the club with the hottest d.j. in Ibiza.FICTION
Nicole Krauss 54 “Shelter”THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Nikhil Krishnan 60 The self-centered early Romantics.
65 Briefly Noted
Peter Schjeldahl 66 Excavating the mysteries of Piet Mondrian’s greatness.MUSICAL EVENTS
Alex Ross 72 John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra.”THE THEATRE
Helen Shaw 74 “Four Saints in Three Acts.”POEMS
Monica Youn 36 “Study of Two Figures (Midas/Marigold)”
Charif Shanahan 49 “Thirty-seventh Year”COVER
Mark Ulriksen “All Rise!”DRAWINGS Ellis Rosen, Drew Panckeri, Seth Fleishman, Frank Cotham, Joe Dator, Harry Bliss,
Amy Hwang, Carolita Johnson, Maggie Larson, Asher Perlman, P. C. Vey, David Sipress, Roz Chast, Teresa Burns Parkhurst,
Elisabeth McNair, Nathan Cooper, Zachary Kanin, Jeremy Nguyen, Mick Stevens S POTS Jochen Gerner