The New Yorker2022-07-04
4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
13 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Supreme Court after Roe;
masters of their medium; the blacklist, podcasted;
what would Dalí think of it?; the shape of speech.
PERSONAL HISTORY
David Wright Faladé 20 Mixeded
A family secret is revealed and an identity reëvaluated.
PROFILES
Ian Parker 36 The First Rule Is Not to Lie
Emmanuel Carrère’s approach to literary journalism.
FICTION
Shirley Jackson 27 “Call Me Ishmael”
Bryan Washington 28 “Arrivals”
Rachel Kushner 50 “A King Alone”
Ling Ma 62 “Peking Duck”
ROAD TRIPS
Joy Williams 33 Mine Field
Akhil Sharma 45 Wide World of Disney
Yiyun Li 53 In the Beforetime
Uwem Akpan 59 Night Driving
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
James Wood 70 The cynical liberty of Jean Rhys’s heroines.
73 Briefly Noted
Merve Emre 76 Cristina Rivera Garza’s metamorphic vision.
Salvatore Scibona 80 An ongoing renaissance in English for Halldór Laxness.
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 84 The Yanktonai Dakota painter Oscar Howe.
POEMS
Nancy Morejón 41 “The Dead”
Marianne Boruch 56 “A Theory of Human Origin”
COVER
Lorenzo Mattotti “Adventures Ahead”
DRAWINGS Lars Kenseth, P. C. Vey, Amy Hwang, Barbara Smaller, Frank Cotham, Suerynn Lee, Mick Stevens,
Elisabeth McNair, Farley Katz, Michael Maslin, Tom Toro, Roz Chast, Drew Dernavich SPOTS Lennard Kok
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