The New Yorker - February 17-24 2020

72 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY ADRIAN TOMINE FICTION HARUKI MURAKAMI ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 73 W hat I find strange about growing old isn’t that I’ve got older. Not that the yout ...

girl carrying that LP in the hallway of our high school had never left me, for the longest time I didn’t feel like actu- ally gi ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 75 as I recall, around the same time that Robert Kennedy was assassinated—the man who ...

76 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 like me much. Whenever we saw each other she looked at me with strange eyes, totall ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 77 brother eased himself into an armchair facing me. And once again let out an­ other ...

78 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 Tanizaki, Kobo Abe, and the like. And appended to each work—all excerpts, except fo ...

about waiting another thirty minutes?” her brother asked. “How about you wait another thirty minutes, and if she’s not back by t ...

80 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 that lapse I take a huge hammer and bash somebody’s head in, somebody I don’t like. ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 81 living together under the same roof since she was born, but there are still tons of ...

82 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 wanted to die, and for six months she stashed away the medicine bit by bit. It wasn ...

84 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 THE CRITICS ON TELEVISION THROWBACK THURSDAY Hulu’s “High Fidelity” and Freeform’s ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 85 In the new “High Fidelity,” scenes that mirror the film, from 2000, have the feel o ...

86 THE NEWYORKER, FEBRUARY 17 & 24, 2020 she dismiss Billie Eilish as conformist? Is she too stuck up for Saweetie? It’s ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 87 Pliny the Younger witnessed the eruption that killed his uncle, Pliny the Elder. BO ...

those outside, who were probably killed instantly by the heat. Other researchers have identified some glassy black mate- rial fo ...

John F. Healy—is not merely huge but piquant and readable. Of bees, for ex- ample, he writes: The bees have a wonderful way of s ...

90 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 two months to get back. Reading them, you sense that Trajan often wished Pliny woul ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 91 Amid rival orthodoxies, Tyll is as reckless as the Devil and as selfless as Christ. ...

92 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY 17 &24, 2020 is to suppress any itching modernity and become that world view in order to sal- va ...