The New Yorker - USA (2019-09-30)

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5 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN


19 THE TALK OF THE TOWN


Elizabeth Kolbert on Greta Thunberg’s climate mission;
the candidates’ IMDb credits; fashion of a kind;
Jenny Lewis talks salad; cooking with the sun.
ANNALS OF MEDICINE
D. T. Max 26 Dr. Robot
Surgery by remote control.

SHOUTS & MURMURS
Colin Stokes 33 Running with Scissors

BRAVE NEW WORLD DEPT.
Jia Tolentino 34 The Meme Factory
How TikTok keeps us watching.

A REPORTER AT LARGE
Tad Friend 42 Value Meal
A quest to save the planet with meatless burgers.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Anna Wiener 56 Girl, Disrupted
Lessons from Silicon Valley.

SKETCHBOOK
Joel Kuntz 63 “Hudson Yards”
FICTION
Joy Williams 66 “ The Fellow”
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Andrew Marantz 69 Reckoning with the age of social media.

BOOKS
71 Briefly Noted
Louis Menand 75 Does college perpetuate inequality?
Adam Kirsch 81 A new translation of “Darkness at Noon.”
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 86 “The Laundromat,” “ Downton Abbey.”
POEMS
Annelyse Gelman 30 “The Climate”
Henri Cole 68 “On Friendship”

COVER
Christoph Niemann “Evolution”

DRAWINGS Jason Patterson, Mick Stevens, Liz Montague, Roz Chast, Victoria Roberts,
Michael Maslin, Joe Dator, Frank Cotham, Elisabeth McNair, Liana Finck, Charlie Hankin, Paul Noth,
Maggie Mull, Karen Sneider, Shannon Wheeler, Ellie Black, Jeremy Nguyen S POTS Tucker Nichols


SEPTEMBER 30, 2019


THE TECHNOLOGY ISSUE

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