The New Yorker - USA (2020-03-02)

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THE NEWYORKER, MARCH 2, 2020 1 4 GOINGSONABOUTTOWN 13 THETALKOFTHETOWN Jelani Cobb on criminal justice and the election; the bod ...

2 THE NEWYORKER, MARCH 2, 2020 CONTRIBUTORS Jonathan Blitzer (“Get Out,” p. 44) be- came a staff writer in 2017. He covers immig ...

wealthy streamlining their closets in pursuit of spiritual clarity when many people survive with much less. Minimalism, it would ...

Rouge can be a color of love, boldness, and vibrance; for Yuna, who dropped an album named for the rosy hue in July, it seems to ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 5 COURTESY THE ARTISTS AND DEREK ELLER GALLERY Picture Alexander Calder weaving dream catchers at ...

6 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY LIBBY VANDERPLOEG “Company” is, I think, the first irrefutably postmodern musica ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 7 ILLUSTRATION BY ELENI KALORKOTI As fail-safe vehicles of spiritual uplift, not many works of the ...

8 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY CATHRYN VIRGINIA “Ecstatic Music”—established as a festi- val, in 2011, by New A ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 9 ILLUSTRATION BY EMMA ROULETTE Like any self-respecting young arts space, Knockdown Center is car ...

10 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 COURTESY METROGRAPH PICTURES AND WAKA FILMS An extraordinary twelve-year-old actor, Lissa Baléra ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 11 PHOTOGRAPH BY COLE WILSON FOR THE NEW YORKER; ILLUSTRATION BY JOOST SWARTE 1 TABLESFORTWO Le Cr ...

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THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 13 COMMENT THECYNICISMVOTE E arly in last week’s Democratic Pres- idential debate, in Las Vegas, j ...

14 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 thirteen per cent of the black male vote. It is pedestrian, at this point, to note that there we ...

THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 15 Huey Lewis Austen’s novel, whose heroine is not only handsome, clever, and rich but a spirited ...

16 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 a much hated composite. Then came Massimo Vignelli, an Italian designer who drafted a map that w ...

Last month, the Trump Administration drafted an executive order decreeing that new federal buildings be designed in the neoclass ...

18 THENEWYORKER,MARCH2, 2020 Eric Smokes and David Warren, sentenced as teens, insist that they are innocent. OUR LOCAL CORRE ...