The New Yorker - USA (2020-07-27)

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 39 to you, dear Toni: alive, beloved and per- severing, magical.... For all America, for all of Am ...

40 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 PROFILES M AY 13, 2002 PUBLIC NUISANCE Larry Kramer, the man who warned America about AIDS, can’ ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 41 “Larry helped change medicine in this country,” a leading federal health official said. PHOTOGR ...

42 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 suddenly wanted benefits and protections that only Washington could provide. Kramer’s actions ha ...

headquarters, in the Washington sub- urbs. An advisory panel was consider- ing whether to approve a new treatment for one of the ...

44 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 assertion that Abraham Lincoln was gay, and continues into the present. “He has set himself the ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 45 I have gotten sicker, I keep adding tur- quoise, so now I am basically a walking Sioux. But I a ...

asked few questions about it, and Fal- loon was amazed at how docile her new patient was. “He does nothing like what you might e ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 47 teletype machine, at Columbia Pictures. He was going to turn it down until he was told that the ...

48 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 today. It’s something like forty or fifty million people have H.I.V. I’m respon- sible? I mean, ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 49 Instead of going to the bars, you went to an ACT UP meeting.” Those meet- ings became the essen ...

50 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 PHOTOGRAPH BY GARRETT GROVE FICTIONJUNE 26, 1948 The Lottery Shirley Jackson ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 51 T he morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the ...

52 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 her, and they both laughed softly. “Thought my old man was out back stacking wood,” Mrs. Hutchin ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 53 women began to speak at once, saying, “Who is it?,” “Who’s got it?,” “Is it the Dunbars?,” “Is ...

54 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 THE CRITICS BOOKSAPRIL1, 2013 AN UNFINISHED WOMAN The desires of Margaret Fuller. BYJUDITH THURM ...

THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 55 Fuller circa 1850. She had invented a new vocation: the female public intellectual. COURTESY ME ...

56 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 with “Margaret Fuller: A New Ameri- can Life” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Marshall is a gifted ...

castic, and self­important—who invites mockery. A good deal of her showing off was the bravado of a misfit. She was hu­ miliated ...

58 THENEWYORKER,JULY27, 2020 atypically, “is like being set in a large place. You stretch your limbs & dilate to your utm ...