The New Yorker - USA (2021-12-13)

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4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Jeannie Suk Gersen on abortion and the Supreme Court; Josephine Baker célébrée; b ...

CONTRIBUTORS PHOTO BOOTH Emily Witt writes about Rose Marie Cromwell’s series “A More Fluid Atmosphere,” shot in Miami. 2021 INR ...

Arizona (“Towering Infernos,” Novem- ber 15th). I was a nineteen-year-old work- ing for the Avra Valley Fire District. That day— ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY SARAH PALMER GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN DECEMBER 8 – 14, 2021 The photographer Gordon Parks was the first Black director ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 5 OPPOSITE: SOURCE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM WARNER BROS. / PHOTOFEST (“THE LEARNING TREE”); M-G-M / PH ...

6 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 ILLUSTRATION BY AMRITA MARINO One of Robert Battle’s most significant acts as the director o ...

The Royal Palace’s Campo del Moro Gardens If life were a city... it’d be M adrid © M adrid Destino Cultura Turism o y Negocio, S ...

8 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 in the play, or what to do with the biographies we’re offered.—Vinson Cunningham (12/6/21) ( ...

©Photograph: Laurent Ballesta/Gombessa Project RAISE AWARENESS, TRANSMIT OUR PASSION,HELP PROTECT THE OCEAN http://www.blancpain ...

10 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 1 For more reviews, visit newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town COURTESY KINO LORBER Bruno Dumo ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 11 PHOTOGRAPH BY MYESHA EVON GARDNER FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLES ...

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THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 13 COMMENT WHO’STHEL AW? T he legal landscape of the past weeks and months has prompted ques- ...

14 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 PARISPOSTCARD MAMANAT THEPANTHÉON T hree hours before Josephine Baker was inducted into the ...

“...his gift to us, at a time when people seem, indeed, as far apart as ever.” “It’s a collectivist pursuit of creating and inte ...

16 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 1 EXTRA!EXTRA! COLORINGTHEG R AY LADY T he artist Fred Tomaselli turned off a radio blasting ...

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vest, thick-framed black glasses, and a hat emblazoned with the words “The Starry Night.” Walking to their seats, his companion, ...