The New Yorker - USA (2020-08-17)
person. They laughed about Trump— in many people’s eyes, he wasn’t to be taken seriously. As the spring wore on, conversations o ...
THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 39 space the previous weekend. At the end of the story, she said, “Every country has its strong po ...
40 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 PERSONAL HISTORY WANDERLUST How a summer tracking musk oxen in Alaska led to a lifetime on the ...
THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 41 The author in his early twenties, not long after returning from his expedition to Nunivak. COUR ...
42 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 journal, “Can’t wait for the reply!” It didn’t come. My dilemma was unexpectedly re- solved wh ...
THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 43 mists, and soon retreats before the rush of sea fog, as if uncertain of its author- ity in this ...
44 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 was a wooden church, as big and red as a barn. A few hundred feet out of town, I found a spot ...
smoked.” Jobe, a Cup’ig man in his thir- ties with intelligent eyes and a thought- ful presence, had worked for six years as an ...
46 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 cooked one for dinner. I had brought the James Clavell novel “Shōgun,” and I read to keep myse ...
ing up and stopped dead. There was a huge bundle of it!” Once I had collected everything I could see, I put it on the scale that ...
48 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 my eyes caught something on the ground: the ravaged carcass of a musk ox. There was qiviut eve ...
THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 49 everything was O.K., that I wasn’t going to hurt her, and that she was beautiful. I sang the fi ...
50 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY ANNE LAVAL FICTION ...
THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 51 T he Bakers held a party in their flat, and Mrs. Baker told Geeta that she was to bring the chi ...
some instinct made her turn back and say, “Frying pans are this way. I can show you if you want.” D uring one of their walks in ...
THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 53 her everything about himself she, too, would be old. She sensed the warning and was discreet. S ...
54 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 was almost certainly better off that way; there was the lurking stink of crimi- nality, possib ...
THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 55 Always it was the same demand. She wanted Geeta to send jewelry to her mother. Geeta lived in t ...
56 THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 be asked to explicate. So Geeta listened and tried to make sense of it, of this strong, mad ch ...
THENEWYORKER,AUGUST17, 2020 57 period; she would have succeeded; they would have won. After the incident with the knife, Rani ...
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