The New Yorker2022-07-25
4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
11 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jelani Cobb on Herschel Walker’s mendacious ascent;
wind-powered wine; growing the perfect berry;
Blaxploitation buffs unite; remembering John Bennet.
THE SPORTING SCENE
Sarah Larson 16 One More Game
Pickleball goes pro.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Robert Carlock 23 Letter of Resignation
DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION
Jill Lepore 24 Moving Right Along
The electric return of the Volkswagen bus.
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Evan Osnos 30 The Floating World
Plutocratic politics aboard the world’s superyachts.
LETTER FROM LUSANGA
Alice Gregory 42 Fertile Ground
A Congolese collective takes on the art world.
FICTION
Han Ong 52 “Elmhurst”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Philip Deloria 60 Tribal nations’ racial purges.
65 Briefly Noted
Jerome Groopman 66 The literary power of medical narratives.
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 70 Robert Colescott and “Women at War.”
DANCING
Jennifer Homans 72 Pam Tanowitz choreographs the Song of Songs.
POEMS
David Lehman 34 “Resistance”
Kate Baer 49 “Mixup”
COVER
Christoph Niemann “Time for Reflection”
DRAWINGS Victoria Roberts, Asher Perlman, Frank Cotham, Charlie Hankin, Christopher Weyant,
Liana Finck, Maggie Larson, Dan Rosen, Roz Chast, P. C. Vey, Lisa Rothstein and Hal Ackerman, Emily Bernstein,
William Haefeli, Justin Sheen, Jon Adams SPOTS Janik Söllner
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