The New Yorker 2021 10-18

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4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Dhruv Khullar on the coronavirus this winter; L.A.’s mansion wheeler-dealers; on ...

2 THE NEWYORKER, OCTOBER 18, 2021 CONTRIBUTORS ELEMENTS Carolyn Kormann looks at the science behind the theory that a lab leak s ...

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PHOTOGRAPH BY DINA LITOVSKY GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN OCTOBER 13 – 19, 2021 The playwright Douglas Carter Beane, whose zinger-filled ...

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6 THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER18, 2021 ILLUSTRATION BY HOI CHAN Following the success of her 2018 début, “Devotion,” the reserved En ...

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THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER18, 2021 13 COMMENT WINTERFORECASTS T he coronavirus pandemic in the United States appears, for the mo- men ...

14 THENEWYORKER,OCTOBER18, 2021 L.A.POSTCARD AWARD-WORTHY W ildfires, drought, the prospect of Caitlyn Jenner as governor: no ...

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1 ALFRESCO EPIC A t six o’clock on a warm Sunday morning, Joseph Medeiros, an actor from Queens with a few Broadway cred- its, h ...

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