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JAN. 1 1, 2016
JA NUARY 11, 2016
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GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
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THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Amy Davidson on extreme weather;
lightsabers; after “Downton”; David Bowie;
James Surowiecki on taxing corporations.
Katherine zoepf
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28
30
36
50
SISTERS IN LAW
Saudi Arabia’s first female attorneys.
Simon rich
NICK Paumgarten
DAY OF JUDGMENT
THE WALL DANCER
A rock-climbing prodigy.
TAD Friend
THE MOGUL OF THE MIDDLE
A studio head tries to reinvent Hollywood.
BEN Lerner
THE CUSTODIANS
The Whitney’s conservation methods.
FICTION
ANNE Carson
60
“1 = 1”
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE
THOMAS Mallon
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69
The rise of the radical right.
BOOKS
Briefly Noted
MUSICAL EVENTS
ALEX Ross
70
Igor Levit and Evgeny Kissin.
POEMS
Frank x. Gaspar
Jane VanDenburgh
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56
“Quahogs”
“When Grace at the Bliss Café Calls”
marcellus hall
COVER
“The Great Thaw”
DRA
WINGS
Kim Warp, Farley Katz, Will McPhail, Benjamin Schwartz, Liana Finck, Charlie Hankin,
Edward Steed, Joe Dator, Paul Noth, William Haefeli, Roz Chast, Tom Cheney, Tom Chitty, David
Borchart, Tom Toro, Barbara Smaller, David Sipress, Jack Ziegler
SPOTS
Pablo Amargo
THE NEW YORKER, JANUARY 11, 2016
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CONTRIBUTORS
Katherine Zoepf
(“SISTERS IN LAW,” P. 22)
is a fellow at New America. Her first
book, “Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are
Transforming the Arab World,” comes out this month. Reporting for this piece
was facilitated by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
a roving cultural correspondent
for newyorker.com. Her recent interview with Aziz Ansari can be heard on
Episode 11 of “The New Yorker Radio Hour.”
Tad Friend
(“THE MOGUL OF THE MIDDLE,” P. 36)
has been a staf writer since 1998.
Sarah Larson
(THE TALK OF THE TOWN, P. 20)
is
He is the author of “Lost in Mongolia” and “Cheerful Money: Me, My Family,
and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor,” a memoir.
Ben Lerner
(“THE CUSTODIANS,” P. 50)
is a 2015 MacArthur Fellow. His monograph,
“The Hatred of Poetry,” will be out this summer.
Jane Vandenburgh
(POEM, P. 56)
, a novelist, is the author of five books, including
“A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century: A Memoir.”
Nick Paumgarten
(“THE WALL DANCER,” P. 30)
has been writing for
The New Yorker
since 2000.
Anne Carson
(FICTION, P. 60)
will publish “Float,” a collection of performance
pieces and other writings, later this year.
thomas Mallon
(A CRITIC AT LARGE, P. 63)
is a novelist, an essayist, and a critic.
He is the author of, most recently, “Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years.”
has written several works of fiction,
including “Spoiled Brats,” a collection of stories.
Simon Rich
(SHOUTS & MURMURS, P. 2 )
marcellus Hall
(COVER)
, an illustrator and a musician, lives in New York.
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Omer Mahdi,
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THE NEW YORKER, JANUARY 11, 2016
THE MAIL
THE MAN ON THE RIVER
The piece by Ben McGrath was a beau-
tiful remembrance of Dicky Conant,
who made it his life’s work to navigate
a long-distance canoe using a road atlas
and river maps (“The Wayfarer,” De-
cember 14th). Everyone Conant met
was captivated by his personality and
impressed by his courage. My brother
Peter was a part of Catfish Yacht Club,
mentioned in the story, through which
the Conant brothers and their friends
explored the Nauraushaun Brook in a
small boat. The excitement of those
childhood summer adventures stuck
with the boys. My brother joined the
Coast Guard, Chris Kelly carries his
membership card to this day, and Dicky
continued to seek pleasure along the
river. As he wrote, “The experience it-
self is the reward.”
Nancy Wieting
Chicago, Ill.
If even only part of what Conant
claims he did was true, he lived a life
that won’t be replicated and quite pos-
sibly was never lived before. When I
met him, I knew that he was spe-
cial. McGrath’s insight into his psy-
che helps me to partly understand how
he was able to cope with the mental
demands of his journeys. I know that
there is convincing evidence that
Conant is no longer alive, but I choose
to think that he got too much recog-
nition and just stepped away; he’s of
on another part of the trek. He is still
out there, on behalf of me and every
other rat in the race, those of us who
live as much as we can but not as much
as we could. Sometimes when I am
cold and wet or hot and uncomfort-
able on one of my own excursions—
Dick would laugh at my stolen over-
nighters and short fishing trips—I think
about him and what he did.
Robert E. Cooper
Demopolis, Ala.
I talked to McGrath in the course of
his reporting on my brother Dicky. By
most standards he was an ordinary
man—even though he would argue
that “there are no men like me”—but
what he accomplished from his canoe
was quite extraordinary. He was a man
who had his flaws, as we all do, but he
did touch a great many people in a very
positive way. Maybe that is his legacy.
His was a story that deserved to be
told, and I am grateful that McGrath
was able to write it. What warms my
heart the most is that the article shows
the soul of the man and recognizes that
which was good.
Joseph Conant
Peachtree City, Ga.
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TROUBLED REFUGE
I commend Rachel Aviv for telling
the story of Nelson Kargbo, a refugee
from Sierra Leone who got tangled up
in the United States’ deportation sys-
tem (“The Refugee Dilemma,” De-
cember 7th). Nelson’s devastating tra-
jectory reflects a complex and violent
pattern of deportation that began with
the passage of the Illegal Immigration
Reform and Immigrant Responsibil-
ity Act of 1996 and has intensified
since the September 11th attacks. I
spent a year researching deportation
as a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar
in Mexico, and I can attest to the dam-
aging efects of U.S. immigration pol-
icies in America and beyond. Record-
high deportations from the U.S. dis-
mantle the lives of deportees and their
families. As with the experience of
Kargbo, the aftermath of detention and
deportation is invisible to most policy-
makers and members of the public. Until
there is political will to reform Amer-
ican immigration laws, millions of peo-
ple will continue to be caught in a sys-
tem that is startlingly unjust.
Deborah A. Boehm
Reno, Nev.
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