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 for all;
yarnbombs away; love, and germs, in the air.
ANNALS OF NATURE
Sam Knight 32 Betting the Farm
A new vision for Britain’s land.SHOUTS & MURMURS
Jack Handey 39 To My RelativesAMERICAN CHRONICLES
Julian Lucas 40 The Fugitive Cure
Learning history by reënacting it.PROFILES
Ian Parker 48 The Really Big Picture
Yuval Noah Harari explains the world.
LETTER FROM ARLES
Lauren Collins 60 Living Proof
A supercentenarian or an audacious fraud?
FICTION
Haruki Murakami 72 “With the Beatles”
PUZZLES & GAMES DEPT.
Elizabeth C. Gorski 83 Anniversary Crossword
THE CRITICS
ON TELEVISION
Doreen St. Félix 84 “High Fidelity,” “Party of Five.”BOOKS
Joan Acocella 87 Life under Vesuvius.
89 Briefly Noted
James Wood 91 Daniel Kehlmann’s mythical trickster.
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 94 The effrontery of Peter Saul.
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 96 “Birds of Prey,” “Corpus Christi.”POEMS
Caki Wilkinson 54 “Elvis Week”
Cecily Parks 76 “December”
COVER
Barry Blitt “Origin Story”DRAWINGS Madeline Horwath, George Booth, Zoe Si, Will McPhail, Paul Noth, Liana Finck, P. C. Vey, Karl Stevens,
Edward Koren, Roz Chast, Carolita Johnson, Joe Dator, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Kim Warp S POTS Barry Blitt