The New Yorker - May 28, 2018

down on the island yet. We are talking days, maybe,” James says, rubbing his face. He rubs it with real purpose, pull- ing the s ...

the plot of “Cannonball Run,” except that these people are old, they drive very slowly, and some of them just might die tonight. ...

unspecified steaming goodness. Salty, crunchy objects littered over wet mounds of something achingly deli- cious, with sauce, wi ...

copper pots. The waiter is a boy. Not an infant, but not exactly a man. Some- where in that intermediate gravy. “Are you all wea ...

we quickly realize that we’ve just in- creased our risk of death—because trees seem to seek people out in these kinds of situati ...

THE CRITICS BOOKS SHOTS IN THE DARK The street photography of Weegee the Famous. BY THOMAS MALLON P hotography, at its mid-ninet ...

The secret of Weegee’s photography was his ability to operate as both the giver and the getter of attention. ICP/GETTY; OPPOSITE ...

News logo—as being “tough as anything, built mostly from machined aluminum and steel.” It was the only press creden- tial Fellig ...

by events: thanks to rackets-busting and a male-draining World War, New York was headed for a prolonged plunge in the rate of lo ...

boy chaufeur perform in the next room. Weegee excised this last detail from the manuscript of his memoir, but merely to save the ...

(Weegee almost certainly posed the chil- dren and told them to keep their eyes shut.) Still, Weegee often exhibited an immigrant ...

he republished his opera photographs a couple of years later, his printed com- mentary gave no hint of the deception. There were ...

THE NEW YORKER, MAY 28, 2018 71 A business once ruled by star power is now dominated by intellectual property. BOOKS CLOBBERING ...

cinematic marketplace, dominated by China. In “The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of the Movies” (Hough- ton Milin Harcou ...

Until blockbusters arrived—starting in 1975, with Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws,” in its time the most commercially suc- cessful film ...

Academy Awards, including Best Pic- ture. He’d débuted films at Cannes six years in a row—“The Mission,” with Robert De Niro and ...

finance.” The personal style of agenting has evolved accordingly. As one agent explains, in the old days “you were very interact ...

Rammellzee channelled the city’s chaos into a spectacular personal mythology. POP MUSIC GRAFFITI PROPHET Rammellzee wanted to se ...

didn’t so much radiate visions outward as take things in like a “sponge,” learn- ing about genius from books. He and Ramm once b ...

78 THE NEW YORKER, MAY 28, 2018 Rattle and the London Symphony seem to be in near-perfect alignment. MUSICAL EVENTS CONTROLLED E ...