4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
11 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
David Remnick on Trump’s last days in office;
evacuating the House; the Proud Boys of Palm Beach;
the Capitol mob; Georgia decides; long surf, short day.
LETTER FROM COLORADO
Nick Paumgarten 18 Bad Influencer
How a skier made himself a public menace.PERSONAL HISTORY
Rachel Kushner 26 The Hard Crowd
Growing up in a different San Francisco.THE CONTROL OF NATURE
Elizabeth Kolbert 32 Life Hacks
Could gene editing protect the environment?
PROFILES
Julian Lucas 40 Structure and Flow
El Anatsui’s monumental sculpture.
FICTION
Graham Swift 50 “Blushes”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Margaret Talbot 56 The pleasures of being a beginner.
59 Briefly Noted
Francisco Cantú 61 Border-making and the appetite for land.
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Jill Lepore 65 Looking for the meaning of work.
MUSICAL EVENTS
Alex Ross 70 David Hockney’s encounter with Wagner.
THE THEATRE
Vinson Cunningham 72 The plays of Adrienne Kennedy.
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 74 “Pieces of a Woman,” “Some Kind of Heaven.”
POEMS
Jean Valentine 46 “The Cricket”
Tyree Daye 55 “what the angels eat”
COVER
Edel Rodriguez “After the Insurrection”DRAWINGS Joe Dator, Will McPhail, Tim Hamilton, Seth Fleishman, Drew Panckeri, P. C. Vey,
Carolita Johnson, Navied Mahdavian, Frank Cotham, Tom Toro, Johnny DiNapoli, Roz Chast, Liana Finck,
Julia Suits, Sarah Akinterinwa, Zoe Si, Jacob Breckenridge S POTS Aurélia Durand