The New Yorker - USA (2020-03-30)

Chilean, the Mozambiquan, the Mo- roccan, the Thai, and the Brazilian ver- sions of this story, the proportions of joy and despe ...

60 THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 who toil in the Challenger levels. If tennis were a cosmology, the regular tour would be heaven ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 61 breadth difference between in and out, over and over again? Of course, it’s so clear now: for a ...

62 THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 and the salt—who cares? He’ll wake up with heavy legs, but they will burn for only the first te ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 63 millionaire many times over, but for the player who has the press writing about the tennis cour ...

64 THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 a living from the thing he loves most. Did I tell you I had to sell my gui- tar to be able to b ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 65 Live streaming, which once seemed to presage the dissolution of human intimacy, now looks like ...

66 THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 discussed the aesthetics of breaking news, the almost-camp spectacle apparently required for th ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 67 Houdini challenged the ultimate reality of death, risking it over and over. ACRITICAT LARGE CHA ...

68 THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 with shackles, and would emerge a short time later, holding them in his hand. Yet these simple ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 69 agitation in Europe at the time, but he came to represent Max Nordau’s ideal of Muskeljudentum, ...

70 THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 English, a language that Cecilia never spoke. Houdini sat there quietly, thanked his hosts, and ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 71 A new book, “Kingdom of Nauvoo,” examines Joseph Smith’s theocratic visions. BOOKS GOD’S COUNTR ...

preaches to their descendants. In an age when people were hungry for ev- idence of God’s continued involve- ment in the world, a ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 73 mons had already chosen a place to re- settle. The town was called Commerce, so they bought it. ...

74 THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 committed as he was to the ritual’s significance,” Park writes, of Smith, “he was similarly com ...

THE NEWYORKER, MARCH 30, 2020 75 Illinois into an extradition arrangement for the Mormon leader, but the munic- ipal courts in N ...

76 THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 seat. Two days later, a mob of more than two hundred men stormed the jail where the Prophet was ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH30, 2020 77 Kavan’s fiction features icy heroines, dystopian quests, and gothic flourishes. BOOKS NIGHT SHI ...

twenty-one, Kavan returned, with their young son, to live in England. During a stay in the South of France, she met a wealthy la ...