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THE NEWYORKER, MARCH 2, 2020 1

4 GOINGSONABOUTTOWN

13 THETALKOFTHETOWN

Jelani Cobb on criminal justice and the election;
the body revealed; fishing with Huey Lewis;
subterranean cartography; a Trumpian revival.
OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS
Jennifer Gonnerman 18 Burden of Proof
The fight to overturn a pair of murder convictions.

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Eli Coyote Mandel 25 X-treme Rules of the X.F.L.

PERSONAL HISTORY

David Sedaris 26 Unbuttoned

Conversations between father and son.

A REPORTER AT LARGE

Nick Paumgarten 32 The Altitude Sickness

The psychic toll of mountain climbing.

PROFILES
Jonathan Blitzer 44 Get Out
Stephen Miller’s punitive immigration agenda.
FICTION
Adam Levin 54 “Kid Positive”
THECRITICS
BOOKS
Hannah Fry 61 Experimentation in the age of Big Data.
65 Briefly Noted
Jonathan Dee 66 James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong.”
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 68 The power of Mexico’s muralists.
POP MUSIC
Carrie Battan 70 Beach Bunny’s début album.
THE THEATRE
Alexandra Schwartz 72 Ivo van Hove takes on “West Side Story.”

THE CURRENT CINEMA

Anthony Lane 74 “The Call of the Wild,” “Emma.”

POEMS

Peter Balakian 50 “Zucchini”

Diane Mehta 58 “Bunches of a Nest”

COVER

Barry Blitt “All That Money Can Buy”

DRAWINGS Amy Hwang, Julia Suits, Maggie Larson,

David Sipress, Emily Flake, Joe Dator, Lars Kenseth, Frank Cotham,

Liana Finck, Liz Montague, William Haefeli S POTS Ivan Brunetti

MARCH 2, 2020

—Sandra Cisneros

“RIVETING, TIMELY,

A DAZZLING

ACCOMPLISHMENT.”

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