4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
15 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jelani Cobb on desegregating education;
graffiti without borders; Common’s meditations;
Small Sloop search; James Atlas remembered.
ANNALS OF DIPLOMACY
Dexter Filkins 20 Damned if You Don’t
Samantha Power’s politics of intervention.SHOUTS & MURMURS
Cirocco Dunlap 25 It’s Not You
DEPT. OF POPULAR CULTURE
Michael Schulman 26 The Force Is with Them
The rise of extreme fandom.PROFILES
Nathan Heller 32 What Remains
James Gray pursues his vision of film.PERSONAL HISTORY
Zuzana Justman 42 My Terezín Diary
Looking back on life in a concentration camp.
FICTION
Garth Greenwell 50 “Harbor”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Jia Tolentino 56 Margaret Atwood ’s “The Testaments.”
Jonathan Dee 61 The extraordinary life of Lafcadio Hearn.
65 Briefly Noted
MUSICAL EVENTS
Alex Ross 66 Kirill Petrenko at the Berlin Philharmonic.
THE THEATRE
Vinson Cunningham 68 “Betrayal,” “Eureka Day.”
POEMS
Tracy K. Smith 37 “The Man Who Owned Me”
Kimiko Hahn 52 “After Being Asked if I Write
the ‘Occasional Poem’”COVER
Ivan Brunetti “First Date”DRAWINGS Adam Douglas Thompson, Lars Kenseth, Emily Flake,
William Haefeli,Carolita Johnson, David Borchart, Liana Finck, Roz Chast,
Sharon Levy, Trevor Spaulding, Jeremy Nguyen S POTS Pablo Amargo