The New Yorker - 06.12.2021

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 19 1 THEBOARDS PERFECTPITCH K athleen Turner has one of the most recognizable voices in show busi- ...

20 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 glasses. “How do we get onstage?” she bellowed, eventually finding her way. As the two stood ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 21 1 THEPICTURES FA M I LY DRAMAS A week after wrapping “Minari,” the movie that would cement his ...

22 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 ONWARD ANDUPWARD WITHTHEA RTS GROWING PAINS The women behind the thirteen-year-olds of “PEN15 ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 23 the show with the writer and director Sam Zvibleman, who inspired the de- piction of Maya and A ...

24 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 New York, where she worked as a server at Prune, the acclaimed Manhattan restaurant, and Ersk ...

like, ‘Let’s just give the traditional eigh- teen-dollar check.’ And I was, like, ‘You will fucking ruin my life if we give that ...

26 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 another rule: What’s your passion level?” Erskine told me. “But then everyone would say, ‘My ...

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28 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 SHOUTS & MURMURS T here are many things about me that I’m sure might be of interest to re ...

THE NEWYORKER, DECEMBER 6, 2021 29 ing their happy faces. No amount of money in the world could top that! I kept in touch with ...

30 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 ANNALS OFTECHNOLOGY HEAD SPACE Researchers are pursuing an age-old question: What is a though ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 31 For the first time that night, there was no clear answer. That winter, the results of the study ...

32 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 fifty different scales. The concepts ranged widely: BOULDER, ME, TORNADO, MOTHER. So did the ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 33 stance, I immediately identify a charac- ter as “the bad guy”: Scar, from “The Lion King,” and ...

intuitively where to look for the security line? The extraordinary difficulty of such feats is obscured by how easy they feel— i ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 35 that, some point down the line, we will be able to read minds. People will be able to articulat ...

36 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 AREPORTERAT LARGE THE INVISIBLE WALL Inside the secretive Libyan prisons that keep migrants o ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 37 “ You can do anything to them, you just can’t kill them,” the director of Al Mabani, a migrant ...

38 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 night.... He was still breathing but he was not able to talk.... I don’t know what happened t ...