The New Yorker - February 17-24 2020

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 31 SKETCHPAD BYE M I LY FLAKE VALENTINE’SDAYGIFTSFORFLUSEASON She kept going, pursuing ...

32 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 “How do we feed the nine billion?” Fiennes said. “Through functioning ecosystems.” ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 33 Holkham. On the wall above his stairs are the heads and antlers of Britain’s six de ...

34 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 than a decade. “Jake’s current canvas is Holkham, but he’s got his eyes set on a bi ...

36 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 opening. But he was struck by Fiennes’s ideas about how to look after the birds. “T ...

For many years, Fiennes’s job title re- mained gamekeeper. He checked his traps and then went for meetings at the estate office, ...

38 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 the chair of the government’s Natural Capital Committee. According to Helm, it is p ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 39 SHOUTS & MURMURS LUCI GUTIÉRREZ Dear Relatives, If you are reading this, I am d ...

40 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 Remembrance culture posits that we must not only honor history but relive it. AMERI ...

shook their heads. “We’re stuck in the Monroe Doctrine,” Elyse said sadly, as though personally stranded in 1823. The orientatio ...

42 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 in a coast-to-coast Underground Rail- road “Network to Freedom.” In Maryland, Congr ...

THE NEWYORKER, FEBRUARY 17 & 24, 2020 43 down a dirt road on a rural military base. His name is Kamau Kambui. “You think our ...

44 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 likely call him a “hotep,” a put-down for esoterically inclined, masculinity-obsess ...

THE NEWYORKER, FEBRUARY 17 & 24, 2020 45 game the Oregon Trail. A classroom cult classic, the program conveyed pioneer hards ...

46 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 earlier, in 2013, the parents of a black student in Connecticut filed a human- righ ...

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48 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 PROFILES THE REALLY BIG PICTURE Yuval Noah Harari, the author of “Sapiens,” suggest ...

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50 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 few conversations with colleagues, on speakerphone, about the fittings for a new Ha ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 51 Hebrew, “Think about a situation where somebody in Beijing or San Francisco knows w ...