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 the beach on the stage;
an Odyssey of performance; Angels get their wings.
AMERICAN CHRONICLES
Rachel Poser 18 Set Up and Sent Away
The stash-house sting and its targets.SHOUTS & MURMURS
Dennard Dayle 25 Eight First Impressions of a Time Traveller
ANNALS OF A WARMING PLANET
James Ross Gardner 26 Under the Dome
Portland ’s response to an unprecedented heat wave.A REPORTER AT LARGE
Rachel Aviv 30 Lost Youth
The drastic methods of a Christian school.PROFILES
David Remnick 40 Let the Record Show
Paul McCartney’s long and winding road.
FICTION
Thomas McGuane 52 “Not Here You Don’t”
THE CRITICS
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 56 “No Time to Die.”BOOKS
Rachel Syme 59 The appetites of Laurie Colwin.
61 Briefly NotedA CRITIC AT LARGE
Louis Menand 63 Does what generation you belong to matter?MUSICAL EVENTS
Alex Ross 68 The first opera at the Met by a Black composer.POEMS
Roger Reeves 34 “Standing in the Atlantic”
Rae Armantrout 49 “Crescendo”COVER
Christoph Niemann “Walk in the Park”DRAWINGS Paul Noth, Zachary Kanin, Barbara Smaller, Johnny DiNapoli, Charlie Hankin,
Victoria Roberts, Lars Kenseth, Navied Mahdavian, Frank Cotham, Liana Finck, Roz Chast, E. S. Glenn, David Sipress,
Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, T. S. McCoy, Liza Donnelly and Carl Kissin S POTS Anthony Russo