The New Yorker2022-02-14
4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Amy Davidson Sorkin on the January 6th papers;
Patricia Clarkson reflects; a used-book bonanza;
filmmaking in Chad; Eustace’s COVID plot twist.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Miriam Toews 18 The Way She Closed the Door
A writer’s winter of discontent.
SKETCHBOOK
Roz Chast 25 “Weird Feeling”
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Cora Frazier 27 The Trigger
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
Alexis Okeowo 28 Pop Poetry
Warsan Shire and the voices of a diaspora.
ANNALS OF LAW
Margaret Talbot 34 Amy Coney Barrett’s Long Game
Christian conservatism on the Court.
PROFILES
Jonathan Blitzer 48 The Caetano Effect
How a musician started a movement.
FICTION
Lauren Groff 58 “Annunciation”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Merve Emre 68 A hundred years of “Ulysses.”
Parul Sehgal 74 Inside Sheila Heti’s universe.
77 Briefly Noted
Casey Cep 78 Why do we care about King Tut?
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 82 Charles Ray’s provocations.
POP MUSIC
Carrie Battan 84 Beach House dreams small.
THE THEATRE
Vinson Cunningham 86 The King of Pop returns in “MJ.”
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 88 “The Worst Person in the World.”
POEMS
Amy Gerstler 40 “Night Herons”
Robin Coste Lewis 65 “43”
COVER
Kadir Nelson “High Style”
DRAWINGS Ellie Black, P. C. Vey, Edward Koren, Ellis Rosen, Johnny DiNapoli, Mads Horwath, Frank Cotham,
Emily Flake, Edward Steed, Emily Bernstein, Barbara Smaller, Liana Finck, William Haefeli, Victoria Roberts, Suerynn Lee,
Farley Katz, Sofia Warren, Zachary Kanin, Seth Fleishman, Colin Tom, Joe Dator SPOTS Luci Gutiérrez
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