4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jeannie Suk Gersen on abortion and the Supreme Court;
Josephine Baker célébrée; black, white, and red all over;
when ball i s l ife ; t he c inema o f Kenny G.
ANNALS OF MONEY
D. T. Max 22 Coin Toss
A b itc oin fo rtune t hat got l ost i n t he d ump.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Meg hana I ndurt i 29 How Immigrant Parents Say “I Love You”
THE CONTROL OF NATURE
Elizabeth Kolbert 30 A New Leaf
Can s cientists d esign pl ants to grow better?
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Dex ter Filkins 38 An Accidental Revolutionary
The woman l ead ing t he u pri sing i n B el aru s.
PROFILES
Mich ael Schulman 50 The Straight Man
Jeremy S trong’s i mmer sion i n h is role.
FICTION
Col in B arrett 58 “A Shooting in Rathreedane”
THE CRITICS
PODCAST DEPT.
Hua Hsu 68 “S oul Music” bre aks d own t he h its.
BOOKS
Marga ret Talbot 71 The l egend o f Greta Garbo.
75 Briefly Noted
Casey C ep 76 A h istory of men taken for gods.
MUSICAL EVENTS
Al ex R oss 80 Encountering a tower of sound.
ON TELEVISION
Dore en S t. Félix 82 “S outh S ide” s hows a d ifferent Chicago.
POEMS
Christian Wiman 43 “The Weakness Meaning Time”
Amanda Gorman 62 “Lucent”
COVER
Edward Steed “Enchanted Garden”
DRAWINGS Frank Cotham, P. C. Vey, Mads Horwath, Drew Dernavich, Jeremy Nguyen, Avi Steinberg,
Soph ie L ucido J oh nson a nd Sammi S kol moski, Lars K enseth, Farl ey Katz, Liana Finck, Barbara Smaller, Victori a R oberts,
Zachary Kanin, Jason Adam Katzenstein, Amy Hwang, Benjamin Schwartz, Paul Karasik, Sofia Warren
S POTS E ri c Hanson
DEC EMBER 13, 2021
Banca do Antfer
