4 GOINGSONABOUTTOWN
13 THETALKOFTHETOWN
Amy Davidson Sorkin on Democrats’ trust exercise;
Murdoch’s broken succession; Sean Spicer boogies;
making music with the Yorns; party like it’s 1929.
THE POLITICAL SCENE
Jonathan Blitzer 18 So Goes the Nation
Competing for Florida’s Latino vote.SHOUTS & MURMURS
Jenny Slate 25 RestaurantLETTER FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
Brooke Jarvis 26 American Sphinx
The fraught history of a monument.A REPORTER AT LARGE
Ben Taub 32 Ideas in the Sky
Will one man’s imagination make a difference?
PROFILES
Jiayang Fan 42 Represent!
The drama of Constance Wu.
FICTION
Thomas McGuane 50 “Wide Spot”
THECRITICS
BOOKS
Janet Malcolm 54 Who really knew Susan Sontag?
Jill Lepore 60 Edward Snowden in the first person.
65 Briefly Noted
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Hilton Als 66 Roy DeCarava and the color black.
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 68 The gaze of Amy Sherald ’s portraits.
ON TELEVISION
Emily Nussbaum 70 “Our Boys.”
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 72 “Ad Astra,” “Monos.”POEMS
Kwame Dawes 36 “Before Winter”
Eliza Griswold 47 “ To w e d ”
COVER
J. J. Sempé “Our Sunday-Morning Outings”SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
DRAWINGS Zachary Kanin, Frank Cotham, Brendan Loper, P. C. Vey,
Amy Hwang, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, Emily Flake, Caitlin Cass,
Bruce Eric Kaplan, David Sipress, Roz Chast, Julia Suits, Avi Steinberg,
Robert Leighton, Brooke Bourgeois S POTS Marcellus Hall