4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
11 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
David Remnick on the legacy of John Lewis’s bravery;
Langston Hughes remembered; N.Y.C. abortion battles;
COVID takes the mother of a trans Latinx community.LETTER FROM JACKSON
Calvin Trillin 16 Plane to Mississippi
Martin Luther King, Jr., debates a racist.THE POLITICAL SCENE
Jelani Cobb 18 The Matter of Black Lives
How a movement found its moment.
PROFILES
Elizabeth Kolbert 24 The Catastrophist
A climate expert’s unheeded warnings.Hilton Als 30 Ghosts in the House
The singular storytelling of Toni Morrison.Michael Specter 40 Public Nuisance
An AIDS activist speaks out and acts up.FICTION
Shirley Jackson 50 “The Lottery”THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Judith Thurman 54 America’s first female public intellectual.
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Nathan Heller 60 The rise and fall of Cesar Chavez.
POEMS
Cornelius Eady 27 “Emmett Till’s Glass-Top Casket”
Sandra Cisneros 44 “Still-Life with Potatoes, Pearls, Raw Meat,
Rhinestones, Lard, and Horse Hooves”COVER
Christoph Niemann “Voices of Change”DRAWINGS P. C. Vey, Liana Finck, Lonnie Millsap, Paul Noth, Frank Cotham,
David Sipress, Julia Suits, Edward Koren, Harry Bliss,
Roz Chast, Bishakh Som, Victoria Roberts, Maddie Dai, Lars Kenseth
S POTS Tomi Um, Anthony Russo