The New York Times Magazine - USA (2022-01-23)

Contributors

Marcela Valdes is a staff writer based in Maryland. She last wrote a feature about the

director Pedro Almodóvar.

Sonia Shah is a science journalist and the author of ‘‘The Next Great Migration:

The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move’’ and ‘‘Pandemic: Tracking Contagions From

Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond.’’

Keith Romer is an audio and print reporter whose work has been featured on National

Public Radio, Planet Money and ESPN’s ‘‘30 for 30’’ podcasts, and in Rolling Stone and

The New Yorker.

Paolo Pellegrin is a Magnum photographer who has won 11 World Press Photo awards.

His most recent book, ‘‘Des Oiseaux,’’ was published in September, and his work will be

exhibited at the Gallerie D’Italia, in Turin, in April.

Ligaya Mishan is a writer at large for T magazine and a new Eat columnist for

The New York Times Magazine. ‘‘Filipinx: Heritage Recipes From the Diaspora,’’

a cookbook she wrote with Angela Dimayuga, was published in November.

James Verini is a contributing writer for the magazine, who lives in London. His book

‘‘They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate,’’ based on his

series for the magazine about the war against the Islamic State, is out in paperback.

His work has received a National Magazine Award and a George Polk Award. In this

issue, Verini writes about the war in eastern Ukraine, which is entering its ninth year.

‘‘It’s one of the murkier conflicts I’ve seen,’’ Verini says. ‘‘It began needlessly and

cynically, in Russian aggression and propaganda. Yet it has lasted as long as it has

because it’s become a struggle for identity in Ukraine. The war has forced Ukraine

to decide what it is as a nation.’’

Screenland,

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‘‘Th e Breeding Ground,’’

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‘‘No Limit,’’

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‘‘Ukraine’s Forever War,’’

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Eat,

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‘‘Ukraine’s Forever War,’’

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Marcela Valdes

Sonia Shah

Keith Romer

Paolo Pellegrin

Ligaya Mishan

James Verini

Behind the Scenes

Kathy Ryan, director of photography:
‘‘For this issue, James Verini writes about
the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine.
We assigned the photographer Paolo Pellegrin
to document the front lines. Paolo is a
seasoned confl ict photographer who has been
documenting historic events around the
world for decades. Th is war has a peculiar
stillness about it that Paolo managed to
imbue with the intensity of what’s at stake.’’
Right: Pellegrin shooting the cover
photograph on the frontline in Avdiivka
town, Donetsk region, on Aug. 30, 2021.

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Photograph by Maria Varenikova

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