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behind the theory that a lab leak
started the coronavirus pandemic.
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Afghanistan and beyond are skeptical
of the U.S. as a feminist liberator.
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Rachel Aviv (“Lost Youth,” p. 30) be-
came a staff writer in 2013. She is at
work on “Strangers to Ourselves,” a
book about mental illness.
Christoph Niemann (Cover) published
“Zoo,” a collection of linocuts and
drawings of animals at two Berlin zoos,
in July.
Rae Armantrout (Poem, p. 49), a Pulit-
zer Prize-winning poet, is the author
of, most recently, “Wobble.” Her new
poetry collection, “Finalists,” will come
out next year.
Thomas McGuane (Fiction, p. 52) began
contributing fiction to the magazine
in 1994. His latest book is “Cloudbursts:
Collected and New Stories.”
Rachel Syme (Books, p. 59), a staff writer,
has covered style and culture for The
New Yorker since 2012.
Dennard Dayle (Shouts & Murmurs,
p. 25) co-hosts “Weeaboo Hell,” a pod-
cast about anime. His début book, “Ev-
erything Abridged,” is due out in 2022.
James Ross Gardner (“Under the Dome,”
p. 26), a writer based in Seattle, is a fre-
quent contributor to newyorker.com.
Rachel Poser (“Set Up and Sent Away,”
p. 18) is the Sunday Review editor at
the Times.
Louis Menand (A Critic at Large, p. 63),
a staff writer since 2001, published “The
Free World: Art and Thought in the
Cold War” earlier this year. He teaches
at Harvard.
Wyna Liu (Puzzles & Games Dept.) is
an associate puzzle editor at the Times,
an assistant editor at the American
Values Club crossword, and an artist.
Roger Reeves (Poem, p. 34), the Su-
zanne Young Murray Fellow at Har-
vard Radcliffe Institute, received a
2015 Whiting Award. He is the author
of the forthcoming poetry collection
“Best Barbarian.”
David Rompf (The Talk of the Town,
p. 16) is a writer based in New York
City.
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