The New Yorker - 30.03.2020

Chilean, the Mozambi.quan, the Mo- roccan, the Thai, and the Brazilian ver- sions of this story, the proportions of joy and desp ...

who toil in the Challenger levels. If tennis were a cosmology, the regular tour would be heaven, and Futures, the lowest level, ...

of last wed(s eclipse. Good morning in the afternoon to the cranked-up cockatoo outside my cafe, on my neighbor's shoulder, my c ...

JDISGUKSCS P05f-L.ASER E'{E SURGERY and the salt-who cares? He'll wake up with heavy legs, but they will bum for only the fi ...

millionaire many times over, but for the player who has the press writing about the tennis court as a bullring in which he's not ...

a living from the thing he loves most. Did I tell you I had to sell my gui- tar to be able to buy a new racket? Mar- tin asks. W ...

THE CRITICS ON TELEVISION WHAT WE'l\E WATCHING In our self-isolation, video has replat:ed social lift, and TV is grappling with ...

dlscussed the aesthetics ofbreaking news, the almost-camp spectacle apparently required for the circulation of informa- tion in ...

A CRlllC AT LAR.GE CHAIN ME UP Harry Houdini and the art of escape. BY Dbl.YID DENBY I n 1908, Harry Houdini-"The World's Handcu ...

J "Look, I'm sorry to cut you off-it's just that I really can't stand listening to other peO'Jle's dreams." with shacldes, a ...

agitation in Europe at the time, but he came to represent Max Nordau's ideal of Mushljudentum, or muscular Juda- ism, with its r ...

English, a language that Cecilia never spoke. Houdini sat there quietly, thanked his hosts, and departed. He wanted to reach his ...

BOOKS GOD'S COUNTRY How Mormons came to terms with the ftderal governm11nt. BY CASEY CEP I t was an unlikely candidacy: a thirty ...

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

mons had already chosen a place to re- settle. The town was called Commerce, so they bought it. Smith changed the name to Nauvoo ...

\l..o ;~ll "I'd better not. The last time I traded a milll cow far beans someone ended up dead."' • committed as he was to the ...

Illinois into an extradition arra.cgement for the Mormon leader, but the munic- ipal courts in Nauvoo thwarted it, in a scandalo ...

seat. Two days later, a mob of more than two hundred men stormed the jail where the Prophet was being held and shot him as he tr ...

BOOKS NIGHT SHIFTS The curious creation of Anna Ka'lHln. BY LEO JlOBSON N otlong after being discharged from a Swiss sanitarium, ...

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 ...