The New Yorker2022-05-16
4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
17 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Amy Davidson Sorkin on the Supreme Court draft opinion;
the leak’s precedent; an improvised pro-Roe protest;
Central Park vs. the Serengeti; Jeff Tweedy needs a new hat.
ANNALS OF WAR
Stephen Witt 22 Weapon of Influence
The Turkish drone changing the nature of warfare.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Teddy Wayne 27 Tucker Carlson on the Alien Invasion
DEPT. OF SCIENCE
Rivka Galchen 28 The Grothendieck Mystery
Why did a revolutionary mathematician disappear?
PROFILES
Raffi Khatchadourian 34 Light and Shadow
A self-taught painter’s pain and self-determination.
LETTER FROM CHENGDU
Peter Hessler 48 A Bitter Education
Free expression on a Chinese college campus.
COMIC STRIP
Emily Flake 57 “Confessions of a New Mitski Lover”
FICTION
Mohsin Hamid 60 “The Face in the Mirror”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Nikhil Krishnan 68 Understanding Ludwig Wittgenstein—or not.
73 Briefly Noted
Maggie Doherty 74 Edna St. Vincent Millay’s consuming stardom.
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 78 Henri Matisse’s “The Red Studio,” at MOMA.
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 80 “Happening,” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”
POEMS
Ludmila Khersonsky 53 “First Day of War”
Chase Twichell 64 “Featherweight”
COVER
Frank Viva “Viva Vélo!”
DRAWINGS Caroline Dworin, Edward Steed, Lars Kenseth, William Haefeli, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, Roz Chast,
Colin Tom, Liam Francis Walsh, Tom Chitty, Sarah Akinterinwa, Trevor Spaulding, Jerald Lewis SPOTS Clo’e Floirat
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