The New Yorker2022-08-15
4 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
17 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jill Lepore on reviving the woolly mammoth;
sharks on ice; the last queen of Sunset Boulevard;
wooing the bonsai cognoscenti; cuddling goes pro.
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Jane Mayer 22 Goodbye, Columbus
The right-wing takeover of swing-state legislatures.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Jenn Knott 29 Why You Shouldn’t Room with James Taylor
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
Alex Ross 30 Laughter in the Dark
How Ernst Lubitsch modernized the Hollywood comedy.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON
Susan B. Glasser 36 Trump’s Last General
and Peter Baker The Pentagon’s standoff with a rogue President.
ANNALS OF INQUIRY
Gideon Lewis-Kraus 48 Do Better
Preaching the gospel of effective altruism.
FICTION
Sana Krasikov 60 “The Muddle”
THE CRITICS
POP MUSIC
Carrie Battan 70 Beyoncé hits the dance floor.
BOOKS
Lauren Michele Jackson 73 Josephine Baker’s life as a spy.
75 Briefly Noted
ON TELEVISION
Naomi Fry 78 Nathan Fielder and “The Rehearsal.”
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 80 “Bullet Train,” “Bodies Bodies Bodies.”
POEMS
Craig Morgan Teicher 43 “Birthday Poem”
Jane Hirshfield 64 “Manifest”
COVER
Gayle Kabaker “Summer Walk”
DRAWINGS Benjamin Schwartz, Jason Adam Katzenstein, Seth Fleishman, Ali Solomon, E. S. Glenn, David Sipress,
Roz Chast, William Haefeli, Julia Suits, Frank Cotham, Amy Hwang, Asher Perlman, Zachary Kanin, Navied Mahdavian,
Dan Misdea, Sofia Warren, Lars Kenseth, Shannon Wheeler SPOTS Christoph Abbrederis
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