The New Yorker - USA (2019-09-23)
“Maybe droneport is the wrong name.” “Maybe we can call it a ‘drone place’?” Ledgard laughed—he and Foster had rigorously addres ...
of computer scientists. “Many species are at risk of local extinction because they have no independent means to change their fin ...
THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 41 ing—maybe forever!—are really funda- mental questions, which machine-intel- ligence enginee ...
42 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 PROFILES REPRESENT! Being Constance Wu. BY JIAYANG FA N T he mid-July sun at Waialua, on th ...
THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 43 Since her breakthrough role, in “Fresh Off the Boat,” Wu has become one of the most famous ...
44 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 tweet, since deleted, the journalist Yashar Ali wrote that Wu’s “conduct today comes as no ...
THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 45 ebration. Listicles (“27 Lessons Jessica Huang Has Taught Us”) compile her wisdom on such m ...
46 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 that I had to give,” she said. One of her professors, Jennie Israel, recalling Wu’s drive, ...
THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 47 humble Chinese-American background, whose sense of her heritage is trans- formed when she a ...
indigence marked them as irredeem ably fresh off the boat, what chance was there for someone like me to achieve Americanness? A ...
THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 49 As for demand, she told me that she had a statistic that she was fond of citing. “U.S. mino ...
50 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY JIM STOTEN FICTION ...
THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 51 T he small-bore politics that I’ve been caught up in for the past thirty years has provided ...
52 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” I smiled amiably at this disclaimer. “I have an ...
THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 53 my kid and leaped forward to some- thing more to my credit. “I suppose you know I’m in the ...
54 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 THE CRITICS BOOKS THE UNHOLY PRACTICE A biography as unillusioned about Susan Sontag as she ...
Susan Sontag, New York, August 29, 1977. Sontag’s life was, in Moser’s telling, always shadowed by abject fear and insecurity. © ...
56 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 somebody like Jackie Onassis put in $2,000”—for a fund to help Sontag when she was ill and ...
THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 57 “Terrible plating.” • • scam artist. And he drops this bomb- shell: he claims that Rieff di ...
58 THENEWYORKER,SEPTEMBER23, 2019 “Grande soy latte for This Is a Robbery.” • • full of them, of a canny reinvention.” Moser’ ...
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