7 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
23 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
David Remnick on Chris Christie and the G.O.P.;
guarding the high frontier; everyone’s tweeting auntie;
no more rooms at the inn; Aucoin and Wagner.
LETTER FROM MOROCCO
Ed Caesar 30 Only Disconnect
A vacation where you pay to get lost.SHOUTS & MURMURS
Teddy Wayne 37 Succession, Jr.
DEPT. OF ARCHEOLOGY
Rebecca Mead 38 Pompeii’s Hidden Layer
Revelations from the latest excavations.THE SPORTING SCENE
William Finnegan 46 Finding a Way Up
The climbing feats of Tommy Caldwell.
ANNALS OF DESIGN
Nicola Twilley 58 The Garden of Forking Paths
A maze-maker and his mazes.
SKETCHBOOK
Roz Chast and Emily Flake 70 “A New York City Field Trip”
FICTION
Greg Jackson 72 “The Hollow”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Joan Acocella 80 The decoders of the Rosetta Stone.
Carlos Lozada 86 Sentimentality and the Second World War.
89 Briefly Noted
POP MUSIC
Carrie Battan 90 Taylor Swift takes back her œuvre.
THE THEATRE
Alexandra Schwartz 92 “Assassins,” “Diana: The Musical.”
ON TELEVISION
Doreen St. Félix 94 Issa Rae and the final season of “Insecure.”THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 96 “The Power of the Dog,” “King Richard.”POEMS
Megan Fernandes 53 “May to December”
Rachel Betesh 77 “Built to Wait”
COVER
Diana Ejaita “Tastes of Home”DRAWINGS Robert Leighton, Farley Katz, Barbara Smaller, Edward Koren, Johnny DiNapoli, P. C. Vey, Victoria Roberts,
Liana Finck, Harry Bliss, Oren Bernstein, Max Wittert, Paul Noth S POTS Giacomo Gambineri