The New Yorker - USA (2021-11-29)

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76 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 does the Holocaust have to do with moving here?” “Nothing,” Jack said. “It’s just a bad joke ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 77 perhaps the simultaneous existence of the disparate realities that hold our frag- ile world ...

78 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 dancing planet, and I was the one who couldn’t get there.” Jack stared at him. “What the fuc ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 79 The scope of something inexpressible, a mammoth, ungraspable intimation, had overtaken him. ...

80 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 THE CRITICS books WHAT THE STONE SAID How Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered. by joan acoc ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 81 With the same message in both hieroglyphs and Greek, the Rosetta Stone made three thousand ...

several books on the intersections of art, science, and detection. According to Dolnick, the Rosetta Stone was not only, as its ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 83 thinkers recorded their sense that pro- found, perhaps even occult, teachings were lurking ...

84 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 further, Champollion showed that the system also used rebuses, a kind of lin- guistic pun si ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 85 atha Christie leading the pack. The En- glish are also connoisseurs of the cross- word puzz ...

86 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 books THE GOOD FIGHT The costs of sentimentalizing the Second World War. by carlos lozada IL ...

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era, returning G.I.s are loners disillu- sioned not just with the war and the years taken from them but also with what their cou ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 89 to every tragedy,” Samet writes. “We find no solace in the inconclusive.” The writings we h ...

90 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 pop music TAKEBACKS Taylor Swift reclaims control of her work. by carrie battan ILLUSTRATION ...

THE NEWYORKER, NOVEMBER 29, 2021 91 lead with appreciation and understand- ing.” He has since sold the catalogue to the Disney ...

92 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 the theatre NOTORIOUS President killers and Princess Diana find musical immortality. by alex ...

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94 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 on television LADIES’ NIGHT Season 5 of “Insecure,” on HBO. by doreen st. félix ILLUSTRATION ...