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

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 69 Most music coverage tries to prescribe or evaluate. In its focus on emotional response, “So ...

70 THE NEWYORKER, DECEMBER 13, 2021 of faith. When he was ordained as a minister, he played U2 over the P.A., as a wink to hi ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 71 BOOKS THE RETIRING SORT What was so special about Greta Garbo? BY MARGARET TALBOT F ame is ...

72 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 is not to diminish her craft as an ac­ tress. But her acting was perhaps most effective in h ...

midsummer New York. (Garbo’s favor­ ite part of the visit seems to have been the roller coaster at Coney Island.) Then it was on ...

74 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 refugee writers, composers, and film- makers from Germany. From the start of her Hollywood c ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 75 beauty, but she was practical enough to know its precise value, and to antici- pate the cos ...

76 THE NEWYORKER, DECEMBER 13, 2021 “ D ear Sir,” the letter from Lord Sandwich to the English natu- ralist Joseph Banks bega ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 77 made other gods, mostly through pro­ creation, but sometimes mortals were deified, too, in ...

78 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 of religion measured all other beliefs and practices. Take the German philologist Frie- dric ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 79 languages but not in others—but Subin suggests that it is an epistemological and ontologica ...

80 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 MUSICAL EVENTS GRINDING BASS Ash Fure’s “Hive Rise” is a visceral encounter with sound. BY A ...

THE NEWYORKER, DECEMBER 13, 2021 81 have in mind? A program note made general mention of “ongoing states of emergency,” of whic ...

82 THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 ON TELEVISION ODD JOBS “South Side,” on HBO Max. BY DOREEN S T. FÉLIX ILLUSTRATION BY GUSTAV ...

THENEWYORKER,DECEMBER13, 2021 83 Drop,” a Season 1 episode, is a masterly satire of sneakerhead fanaticism which peaks with ...

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