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

any one of us,” Caldwell said. He longs to return to Patagonia—there are so many mountains calling him—but feels that he shouldn ...

56 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 climb like that, we’re like the J.V. squad. So many people are better at it than we are. We ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 57 ers might endanger themselves trying to beat. Pause. “But should nobody ever do anything ex ...

58 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 annals of design THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS How the world ’s foremost maze-maker leads peop ...

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THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 61 of the British heritage business, de ri- gueur at stately homes, where, along with tearooms ...

62 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 single continuous hedge, was a laby- rinth within a much larger labyrinth of crisscrossing, ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 63 (once the yews had grown in), as mark- ing the beginning of the current maze boom. During t ...

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THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 65 mega-junctions as well as some awk- ward dead ends. Jim Rossignol and I reached the goal in ...

66 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 a hint that’s not as much of a hint as you think it is,” Rothstein said. “It tantalizes.” Fi ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 67 cuts to get to your goal—the kind of flexibility of thinking you need to nav- igate a maze. ...

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THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 69 frightened that it was too big,” he said. “But the Chinese are utterly driven.” He pulled o ...

70 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 SKETCHBOOK BY ROZ CHASTANDEMILYFLAKE ...

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72 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY LUCAS BLALOCK fiction Greg Jackson THE HOLLOW ...

THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 73 J onah Valente had been an object of amusement to Jack and his col- lege classmates, and pr ...

74 THENEWYORKER,NOVEMBER29, 2021 and superior, he had called their bluff and forced them to follow through. The house was an ...