The New Yorker - February 17-24 2020

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7 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 27 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Steve Coll on Trump’s war with Democrats; the only true Bernie Bro; honeymoons fo ...

CONTRIBUTORS Ian Parker (“The Really Big Picture,” p. 48) contributed his first piece to the magazine in 1992 and became a staff ...

obstacles to democracy today, includ- ing the anti-democratic skew of the Senate and the Electoral College; the rollback of voti ...

Ellen Reid, whose arresting opera “p r i s m” won a Pulitzer in 2019, joins the New York Philharmonic for the première of “When ...

8 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 COURTESY THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK Dorothea Lange took the powerful portra ...

10 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 including irregular lattices that evoke the veins on a leaf and rippling patterns t ...

12 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY BEN PASSMORE It’s natural to want to compare EarthGang to OutKast: ...

That’s a real comment from a real person who tried one of our oatmilks for the first time. Some people just don’t like it. They ...

14 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY SUA BALAC Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker doesn’t lack chutzpah. She’s t ...

16 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY NATHAN GELGUD The last time Broadway contemplated the music and the ...

18 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 (a former Sunday school), in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the director Jim Niesen makes B ...

VIDA AMERICANA MEXICAN MURALISTS REMAKE AMERICAN ART OPENS FEB 17 MEMBER PREVIEWS FEB 12– Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gans ...

20 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY MERIJN HOS cross-country tour dedicated to music by the French comp ...

22 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 delights—translations into language of a vanished opulence that his images lovingly ...

24 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 1 TABLESFORTWO PHOTOGRAPH BY JANELLE JONES FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOS ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 27 COMMENT AFTERIMPEACHMENT O n January 23, 2017, Donald Trump’s fourth day as Preside ...

28 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 OXFORDPOSTCARD BERNIE’SBRO N ext month, American expatriates all over the world wil ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 29 1 MINIBARREPORT TRANSFORMATIVETWENTIES I s there room for champagne and chocolate w ...

30 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 the Lohans summarized the changes in the boutique-hotel sphere over the past two de ...