The New Yorker - USA (2020-08-17)

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Mitchell Johnson of Menlo Park, California—an American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist (2015) and a Josef and Anni Albers Founda ...

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4 GOINGSONABOUTTOWN 11 THETALKOFTHETOWN Amy Davidson Sorkin on reopening schools; a Fred Trump memorial; making COVID mice; rent ...

CONTRIBUTORS Peter Hessler (“How China Controlled the Virus,” p. 28) is a staff writer. His latest book is “The Buried.” Zadie S ...

THE NEWYORKER, AUGUST 17, 2020 3 session, however, depended on military enforcement: de-facto control trumped de-jure possession ...

Immortalized by the Ramones in their 1977 punk-rock anthem of the same name, Rockaway Beach (pictured) remains a favorite place ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 5 1 A RT Art 21 Ten days after 9/11, when people’s spirits desper- ately needed a lift, PBS aired ...

6 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY DROR COHEN The organizers of the Kaatsbaan Summer Festival have taken advantag ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 7 ists Scott Robinson and Donny McCaslin, and the accordionist Gary Versace.—Steve Futterman Sonic ...

8 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 EVERETT A romantic melodrama of gender ambiguity that swerves into screwball comedy and back, ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 9 PHOTOGRAPH BY MYLES LOFTIN FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFORTWO Black ...

2020 has seen a world in crisis, but leaders, scientists, tech- nologists, and activists across the globe are working to make th ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 11 COMMENT FA I LI N G SCHOOLS S chool isn’t due to start in New York City until after Labor Day, ...

12 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 LOCALHEROES TRUMPANDSON C hristopher Columbus was tossed into a lake in Richmond, Virginia. Ki ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 13 1 DEPT.OFPREVENTION MIGHTYMICE I magine, for a moment, a time when the coronavirus is eradicate ...

14 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 medical researchers around the world. She stopped at a loading dock to over- see a shipment fo ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 15 in, too, selling hand-painted tables, special-edition books, and a selection of fountain-pen in ...

16 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 In the past decade, about half of the state’s dairy farms have gone out of business. LETTERFRO ...

THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 17 evitable. “In America, the big get big- ger, and the small will go out,” Perdue said. “I don’t ...