The New Yorker – May 13, 2019

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4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN


13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN


Margaret Talbot on Trump’s war against the rule of law;
the Rhodes to POTUS; women of the stock exchange;
feasting on Renoir; scrub-a-dub-dub Off Broadway.

LIFE AND LETTERS
Joshua Yaffa 18 A Learned Neighbor
Is Maxim Osipov the next Chekhov?

SHOUTS & MURMURS
Colin Nissan 25 O.K., You Can Get a Dog

DEPT. OF PUBLIC HEALTH
David Owen 26 Volumetrics
The health risks of a noisy world.
PROFILES
Vinson Cunningham 32 What Are You Laughing At?
Tracy Morgan’s comeback.
SKETCHBOOK
Ana Juan 41 “Mother’s Day”
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Ariel Levy 44 Broken Ground
Who should own South Africa’s farmland?

FICTION
Lauren Groff 56 “Brawler”

THE CRITICS
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 60 Photography by Garry Winogrand and Jeff Wall.

BOOKS
Joyce Carol Oates 63 Ted Chiang’s science fiction.
65 Briefly Noted
THE THEATRE
Hilton Als 66 “Beetlejuice,” “Tootsie.”

THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 68 “Long Shot,” “Meeting Gorbachev.”

POEMS
Rosanna Warren 35 “‘That the Earth is suspended ...’”
Vijay Seshadri 58 “Visiting San Francisco”
COVER
Diana Ejaita “Iya Ni Wura (Mother Is Gold)”

MAY 13, 2019


DRAWINGS Jason Adam Katzenstein, Karl Stevens, Amy Hwang, Kendra Allenby, William Haefeli, Roz Chast,
Harry Bliss, Maggie Larson, Liana Finck, Will McPhail, Nick Downes S POTS Philippe Petit-Roulet

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