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 S omer s 30 Head Space
How b ra in s ca ns can read your mind.
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Ian Urbina 36 The Invisible Wall
The b rutal Libyan prisons that stop migrants to the E.U.
PROFILES
Sheel ah K ol hatkar 48 The Enforcer
Will t he F.T. C.’s n ew h ead try to break up Big Tech?FICTION
Kate Walbert 58 “Marriage Quarantine”THE CRITICS
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony L ane 63 “Licorice Pizza,” “The Hand of God.”BOOKS
Jerome Groopman 66 Electricity a nd t he body.
Pankaj Mishra 70 Frantz Fanon’s legacy.
73 Briefly NotedTHE ART WORLD
Pe ter S ch jel dahl 74 Soph ie Taeuber-Arp at MOMA.
THE THEATRE
Vi nson C unningham 76 “Clyd e’s ,” “Trouble in Mind.”
POP MUSIC
Carrie Battan 78 The s urprises of Adele’s “30.”
POEMS
Hala Alyan 52 “Topography”
Robert Pinsky 60 “Culture”COVER
Mark Ulri ksen “Ever Giving”DRAWINGS J ulia S uits, Brooke B ourge ois, Liana Finck, Liza Donnel ly, Zachary Kanin,
David S ipre ss, E. S. Glenn, Mick Stevens, Frank Cotham, Liam Francis Walsh, Elisabeth McNair,
Roz C hast, Ed Himel bl au , Matthew Diffee S POTS Anto nio Giovanni P inna