6 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
17 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jill Lepore on the Lorax and banning books;
bidding on the Constitution; Kathleen Turner;
Jet Ski dreams; Steven Yeun’s pandemic.ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
Rachel Syme 22 Growing Pains
The women behind “PEN15 .”SHOUTS & MURMURS
Larry David 28 Notes for My BiographerANNALS OF TECHNOLOGY
James Somers 30 Head Space
How brain scans can read your mind.
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Ian Urbina 36 The Invisible Wall
The brutal Libyan prisons that stop migrants to the E.U.
PROFILES
Sheelah Kolhatkar 48 The Enforcer
Will the F.T.C.’s new head try to break up Big Tech?FICTION
Kate Walbert 58 “Marriage Quarantine”THE CRITICS
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 63 “Licorice Pizza,” “The Hand of God.”BOOKS
Jerome Groopman 66 Electricity and the body.
Pankaj Mishra 70 Frantz Fanon’s legacy.
73 Briefly NotedTHE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 74 Sophie Taeuber-Arp at MOMA.
THE THEATRE
Vinson Cunningham 76 “Clyde’s,” “Trouble in Mind.”
POP MUSIC
Carrie Battan 78 The surprises of Adele’s “30.”
POEMS
Hala Alyan 52 “Topography”
Robert Pinsky 60 “Culture”COVER
Mark Ulriksen “Ever Giving”DRAWINGS Julia Suits, Brooke Bourgeois, Liana Finck, Liza Donnelly, Zachary Kanin,
David Sipress, E. S. Glenn, Mick Stevens, Frank Cotham, Liam Francis Walsh, Elisabeth McNair,
Roz Chast, Ed Himelblau, Matthew Diffee S POTS Antonio Giovanni Pinna