4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
11 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
David Remnick on the prospect of a Biden Presidency;
waiting for Joe; boarded up and protest-proof;
Missouri’s progressive star; a new face of justice.
PROFILES
Adam Gopnik 18 Coming Home
Helping lives begin again after prison.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Trey Ellis 25 Be Very Prepared!
PERSONAL HISTORY
Yiyun Li 26 Make My House Your Inn
The art of loss and the art of tears.ANNALS OF POLITICS
Evan Osnos 30 The Violent Style
Is conversation across America’s divide still possible?LETTER FROM THE U.K.
Rebecca Mead 38 Money Pit
Buried treasure and ill-gotten gains.
SKETCHBOOK
Barry Blitt 45 “Is It Time to Change the President?”
FICTION
Rebecca Curtis 50 “Hansa and Gretyl and Piece of Shit”
THE CRITICS
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 60 New works by Sam Gilliam.
BOOKS
Merve Emre 63 Sianne Ngai’s “Theory of the Gimmick.”
Alice Gregory 68 The passionate fictions of Shirley Hazzard.
70 Briefly NotedPODCAST DEPT.
Amanda Petrusich 72 “Song Exploder.”ON TELEVISION
Naomi Fry 74 “The Undoing.”THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 76 “Ammonite,” “The Nest.”POEMS
Kim Addonizio 34 “Ways of Being Lonely”
Colin Channer 42 “Spumante”
COVER
Pascal Campion “Hope Again” (After Mark Ulriksen, 2012)DRAWINGS P. C. Vey, Seth Fleishman, Liza Donnelly, E. S. Glenn, Emily Flake,
Mary Lawton, Edward Frascino, Jason Adam Katzenstein, Marshall Hopkins, Edward Steed,
Emily Bernstein, Mick Stevens, Drew Dernavich, Carol Lay S POTS Miguel Porlan