2 THE NEW YORKER, MARCH 9, 2020
7 GOINGS ON ABOUTTOWN
25 THE TALK OF THETOWN
Jill Lepore on the problem with polls;
coronavirus tips; minority voters; a farewell to
plastic bags; Cathy Yan; Russian connections.
LETTER FROM SEOUL
Rivka Galchen 30 Complete Trash
Composting and the sustainable city.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Ian Frazier 37 In the Mail
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
Alex Ross 38 Exodus
Weimar intellectuals in Los Angeles.
THE POLITICAL SCENE
Andrew Marantz 44 #Winning
Inside the data strategy to reëlect Trump.
ANNALS OF EDUCATION
Vinson Cunningham 56 Test Case
A way of getting kids of color into prep schools.
FICTION
Anne Enright 68 “Night Swim”
THE CRITICS
POP MUSIC
Hua Hsu 72 Moses Sumney’s “græ.”
BOOKS
Idrees Kahloon 75 The return of Thomas Piketty.
Adam Kirsch 79 Aharon Appelfeld ’s “To the Edge of Sorrow.”
81 Briefly Noted
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 82 MOMA’s Donald Judd retrospective.
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 84 “The Burnt Orange Heresy,” “The Whistlers.”
POEMS
Eileen Myles 48 “March 3”
Stanley Plumly 63 “House”
COVER
Brian Stauffer “Under Control”
DRAWINGS Victoria Roberts, Andy Singer, Liana Finck, Jason Adam Katzenstein,
Harry Bliss, Zachary Kanin, Roz Chast, Jose Arroyo and Conan O’Brien,
Madeline Horwath, Jason Chatfield and Scott Dooley S POTS R. O. Blechman
MARCH 9, 2020
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