4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
David Remnick on the need for political heroes;
the a rt o f c urrency; Spoon’s idle afternoon on tour;
spe eding t hro ugh C ongress; a n Alice Childress revival.
PROFILES
Mich ael Schulman 18 Dark Lady
Elisabe th Moss e mbraces the weird.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Jiji L ee 25 Mastering the Art of Stress Eating
PORTFOLIO
James Nachtwey 26 A Harrowed Land
with David Remnick The grisly realities of the Russian o nslau ght.
LETTER FROM UKRAINE
Luke Mogelson 46 The Wound-Dressers
On t he ground with a battalion of volunteer medics.
FICTION
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh 62 “Nondisclosure Agreement”
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Maya J asanoff 69 How America ns became obsessed with genealogy.
BOOKS
71 Briefly Noted
Juan Gabri el Vásquez 75 Fernanda Mel ch or’s explorations of misogyny.
THE THEATRE
Vi nson C unningham 78 A n ew p roduction of “The Skin of Our Teeth.”
ON TELEVISION
Dore en S t. Félix 80 “The First Lady.”
POEMS
Cynthia Zari n 53 “Pompeii”
Joy Harjo 66 “Sundown Walks to the Edge of the Story”
COVER
Kadir Nelson “Hang Time”
DRAWINGS Tim Hamilton, Ellie Black, Liana Finck, Drew Dernavich ,
Emily Flake, Guy Richards Smit, Tom Chitty, Amy Hwang, P. C. Vey, Jack Reilly,
Dahlia Gallin Ramirez S POTS Gabri el e Ghisalberti
MAY 9, 2022
Banca do Antfer
