The New Yorker - 06.12.2021

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 59 M ary Jane follows her hus- band, Daniel, from room to room, words pouring out of her, yammerin ...

60 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 somewhere—the ref lection from a desk lamp exploding like a dead star. During the calls, she ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 61 The husband explains all this to the wife, who sits beside him but seems not to have absorbed t ...

62 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 important. Profound. Life. The green of their new leaves, the small, white buds, the bright-y ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 63 Set in 1973, in the San Fernando Valley, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film stars Alana Haim and Coope ...

64 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 door and set off across a plowed and misty field, at full tilt, with the camera hurrying to k ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 65 Naples. “He’d never leave Barcelona for this shithole,” somebody says. Yet the miracle comes to ...

66 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 BOOKS LIVING THE LIFE ELECTRIC Why “the spark of life” is more than just a phrase. BY JEROMEG ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 67 daily lives, seeing lightning in the sky or plugging our appliances into wall sockets, we tend ...

were plenty of electrotherapy devices designed for home use and mailed di- rectly—and confidentially—to consum- ers. Pulvermache ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 69 was executed at New York’s Auburn Prison. A report in the New York Her- ald described the conde ...

70 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 BOOKS THE INITIATIVE OF HISTORY Frantz Fanon’s enduring legacy. BY PANKAJMISHRA EV ER ET T “ ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 71 one thing and that is to breed counter- violence,” Mandela said. Fanon presented counterviolenc ...

72 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 the question: Who am I in reality?” By the time he wrote the book, however, his focus had shi ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 73 bilities of the past—those deployed, say, by Indigenous peoples in Canada and Australia, in the ...

74 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 THEA RT WORLD A WOMAN’S WORK Sophie Taeuber-Arp at MOMA. BY PETERSCHJELDAHL for her. That the ...

THE NEWYORKER, DECEMBER 6, 2021 75 painted, metal-hinged wood. Clips from a speculative re-creation, which was filmed in 1993, ...

76 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 THETHEATRE CHARACTER LIMITS The search for justification in plays by Lynn Nottage and Alice C ...

THE NEWYORKER, DECEMBER 6, 2021 77 own answer to anybody else’s suffering is to dismiss it. “I don’t do pity,” she says.) The ...

78 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER6, 2021 POP MUSIC IMPERFECT UNION Adele finds inspiration in the throes of divorce. BY CARRIEB AT TA ...