The New Yorker - USA (2020-11-23)

4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Steve Coll on why Trump is still refusing to concede;

ballot-counting in Philly; wreckage on the 7 train;

a missing Jacob Lawrence; Cazzie David ’s anxiety.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES

Jill Lepore 20 The Trump Papers

Will the President burn the evidence?

SHOUTS & MURMURS

Zach Zimmerman 27 First Lines of Rejected “Modern Love” Essays

LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA

Shane Bauer 28 An Unstoppable Force

The deadly power of one city’s police department.

ANNALS OF ACTIVISM

Andrew Marantz 36 The Anti-Coup

How civil resistance works, and wins.

A REPORTER AT LARGE

Suki Kim 46 Follow the Leader

A mysterious mission to liberate North Korea.

FICTION

Salman Rushdie 56 “The Old Man in the Piazza”

THE CRITICS

ON TELEVISION

Hilton Als 64 Imperial and familial decay in “The Crown.”

BOOKS

Louis Menand 67 Wikipedia and “Jeopardy!” in the Internet age.

Ruth Franklin 71 The radical strangeness of Paul Celan.

73 Briefly Noted

THE CURRENT CINEMA

Anthony Lane 76 “Mank” revisits a mythic collaboration.

POEMS

Tracy K. Smith 40 “We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On”

Kirmen Uribe 60 “Back from the Cannery”

COVER

Kadir Nelson “Election Results”

DRAWINGS Barbara Smaller, Elisabeth McNair, Sarah Akinterinwa, Kaamran Hafeez and
Al Batt, Maddie Dai, Avi Steinberg, David Sipress, Zachary Kanin, Suerynn Lee, Danny Shanahan,
Frank Cotham, Roz Chast, Harry Bliss and Steve Martin, Colin Tom, Pat Achilles
S POTS Cari Vander Yacht

NOVEMBER 23, 2020