The New York Times Magazine - 04.08.2019

4 8.4.

Every week the magazine publishes the results
of a study conducted online in July 2018 by
The New York Times’s research-and-analytics
department, refl ecting the opinions of
4,151 subscribers who chose to participate.

Dear Reader: Do you

separate your M&Ms and

eat them by color?

Contributors

Carina Chocano is the author of the essay collection

‘‘You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford

Wives, Trainwrecks & Other Mixed Messages’’

and a contributing writer for the magazine.

Katy Grannan is a photographer and filmmaker

based in Berkeley, Calif. She last took photographs

for an article about the Ghost Ship fire.

Giles Harvey is a contributing writer for

the magazine. His last article was

a profile of the director Asghar Farhadi.

Vivian Yee is a Middle East correspondent

for The Times. She wrote about

immigration, politics and New York City

before moving to Beirut in November.

Photographed by Kathy Ryan at Th e New York Times
on Feb. 22, 2016, at 10:31 a.m.

Jon Mooallem is a writer at large for the

magazine. His book about the great Alaska

earthquake of 1964, ‘‘This Is Chance!’’ will

be out early next year. For this week’s cover story,

he writes about the Camp Fire in Paradise,

Calif., last fall. Mooallem spent months poring

over cellphone videos of the evacuation and

interviewing survivors to reconstruct what it felt

like to flee the fire that day. He lives on Bainbridge

Island, outside Seattle — a heavily wooded town

with roughly the same population as Paradise

before the fire. ‘‘It affected me,’’ Mooallem says.

‘‘My sense is that many people in my area

are starting to think seriously about wildfires

for the first time. I see a patchwork of hazards

where I used to see only beautiful scenery.’’

Screenland,

Page 7

‘‘Megafi re,’’

Page 28

‘‘13 and Alone,’’

Page 42

‘‘Sins of

the Fatherland,’’

Page 22

‘‘Megafi re,’’

Page 28

Katy Grannan

Carina Chocano

Giles Harvey

Vivian Yee

Jon Mooallem Editor in Chief JAKE SILVERSTEIN

Deputy Editors JESSICA LUSTIG,

BILL WASIK

Managing Editor ERIKA SOMMER

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WILLY STALEY

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KYLE LIGMAN

Poetry Editor RITA DOVE

Staff Writers SAM ANDERSON,

EMILY BAZELON,

RONEN BERGMAN,

TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER,

C. J. CHIVERS,

PAMELA COLLOFF,

NICHOLAS CONFESSORE,

SUSAN DOMINUS,

MAUREEN DOWD,

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES,

JENEEN INTERLANDI,

MARK LEIBOVICH,

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At War Reporter JOHN ISMAY

New York Times Fellow JAKE NEVINS

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CYNTHIA COTTS,

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LU FONG,

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ROBERT LIGUORI,

LIA MILLER,

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No,

that’s weird

82%

Yes,

it’s great

18%