The New Yorker - USA (2019-09-16)

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4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 15 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Jelani Cobb on desegregating education; graffiti without borders; Common’s medita ...

CONTRIBUTORS Zuzana Justman (“My Terezín Diary,” p. 42) is a documentary filmmaker. She recently finished writing a semi-auto- b ...

THE NEWYORKER, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 3 I live a hundred miles by car—fifty via the path of a wind-driven fire—from the Sagehen Cree ...

The personal and professional partnership of Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner is celebrated in the film series “Two Free Women,” runn ...

THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 5 COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ANTON KERN GALLERY, NEW YORK; © ALIZA NISENBAUM “Bodies, with their ...

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8 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY NICOLE RIFKIN Heavy metal is often associated with primal roars, dark theme ...

THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 9 ILLUSTRATION BY LEONARDO SANTAMARIA Anticipating the countdown to opening night, the New Yor ...

10 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY KA YOUNG LEE As summer turns to fall, Lincoln Center snaps back to life. Ne ...

THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 11 ILLUSTRATION BY EUGENIA MELLO Mary-Louise Parker made her Broad- way début in 1990, in Crai ...

12 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 COLUMBIA PICTURES/EVERETT The late writer, director, and producer John Singleton (the subje ...

THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 13 PHOTOGRAPH BY JESSICA PETTWAY FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFORT ...

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THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 15 COMMENT THISISATEST T he New York City Department of Education, the sprawling bureau- cracy ...

16 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 LONDONPOSTCARD THEANTI-PERFECT B ahia Shehab, a forty-two-year-old street artist, arrived i ...

THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 17 sneakers—and bearing mangoes for des- sert. She said that she wasn’t about to let a trip to ...

18 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER16, 2019 excused himself to use the bathroom. On his return, he said, “I form my own way of meditati ...