The New Yorker - USA (2021-02-08)

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 59 BOOKS NOW DO IT AS YOU How Mike Nichols met his moment. BY LOUISMENAND © BOB WILLOUGHBY / MPTV ...

60 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 husband, and hitchhiked from Los An- geles to Chicago, where she hung out at the university, ...

was unable to grow hair on any part of his body, not even eyelashes, the result of a defective whooping-cough vaccine, and his f ...

62 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 as a system of self-regulation. Although it had been revised incrementally over the years, it ...

THE NEWYORKER, FEBRUARY 8, 2021 63 need to declaim. They just need to talk the way people in a room talk to one another. If the ...

64 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 record some new songs for the movie. In the end, though, Nichols chose mostly songs from the ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 65 BOOKS THE HUMAN CLAY How Lucian Freud found his subject. BYADAMGOPNIK © THE LUCIAN FREUD ARCHIV ...

66 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 cracked, Freud began to look much bet- ter. In 1989, Robert Hughes devoted a book, both brill ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 67 owner of Mereworth who had become blind and committed suicide in 1949 by jumping out of a sixth ...

an unconventional trajectory, there was recognizable authority to what he painted early on. Choosing painting was, one senses, a ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 69 posing nude in what used to be called “explicit” positions. One feels that one has no right to ...

70 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 BOOKS THAT’S THE JOKE Big laughs and hard silences in Erin Belieu’s poetry. BY DAN CHIASSON I ...

... What he means to miser, I’ve come to spend most lavishly. And I feel fortunate again to be historically shaky in the maths O ...

72 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 POP MUSIC OLD SOUL Revisiting the sounds of Dusty Springfield. BYAMANDAPETRUSICH I n 1968, th ...

The New Yorker Crossword Puzzle Plot device sometimes used in thrillers. Bad stuff to microwave. N.Y.C. club said to have catal ...

74 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 ON TELEVISION DOUBLE AGENT When work becomes life, in “Call My Agent!” and “The Bureau.” BY A ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 75 they glow under the show’s arch, affec- tionate gaze. Apparently, when Weaver was offered the r ...

76 THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 THECURRENTCINEMA CONNECTIONS “The Little Things,” “Supernova,” and “Two of Us.” BYANTHONYLANE ...

THENEWYORKER,FEBRUARY8, 2021 77 (Stanley Tucci), a novelist who has early- onset dementia and zero illusions about what lies in ...

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