2020-02-10 The New Yorker

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4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Amy Davidson Sorkin on the impeachment trial; the “Oscar” time forgot; Trumpists ...

CONTRIBUTORS Paige Williams (“A Deadly Mistake,” p. 28) is a staff writer and the Laventhol/ Newsday visiting associate professo ...

few friends believed her account of what had occurred; everyone else de- fended her violent attacker or simply refused to accept ...

The playwright Lauren Yee has a disarming way of probing political trauma; her play “The Great Leap” explored China’s Cultural R ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 5 ILLUSTRATION BY MARK TODD Everything about Rex Orange County—his uniquely tender voice, the ...

6 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 PHOTOGRAPH BY RENATO TOPPO / THE NADIA REISENBERG/CLARA ROCKMORE FOUNDATION Whether you firs ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 7 ILLUSTRATION BY GAIA STELLA The oldest known still-lifes are ancient Egyptian—frescoes of fi ...

8 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY JUAN BERNABEU The men of Che Malambo charge like a stampede and dance like c ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 9 ILLUSTRATION BY SONIA PULIDO One of the brightest lights of the experimental-theatre scene, ...

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THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 11 PHOTOGRAPH BY ZACHARY ZAVISLAK FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFOR ...

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THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 13 COMMENT DOINGTRUMPA FAVO R T he sordid truth of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump is th ...

14 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 DEPT.OFH AT E-WATC H I N G “THEOSCAR”RETURNS T he Oscars: Hollywood’s proudest, most self-ag ...

1 TRUMPCOUNTRY ROUNDANDROUND A t ten o’clock on the morning of January 25th, when Donald Trump’s lawyers started the clock on th ...

16 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 Crown Royal whiskey. “My buddy Greg over there is the most liberal, left-wing hack,” he said ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY10, 2020 17 1 DOPPELGÄNGERSDEPT. THEMASKEDSINGER O n a recent Thursday, as a band warmed up in a dark s ...