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JAN. 18, 2016
JA NUARY 18, 2016
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GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Margaret Talbot on Obama and gun control;
stars for Donald Trump; calls for Courtney Love;
sufering for art; trucking firewood.
TAD FRIEND
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35
36
42
46
50
HOLDING THE T
Squash as an antidote to midlife malaise.
Douglas M
c
Grath
Paul Kix
WE HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM
RECOGNITION
Criminal-justice innovation in Texas.
Lauren collins
BLUE BLOOD, BLUE COLLAR
Damian Lewis’s transformations.
Taryn Simon
SHOWCASE
The bouquets of diplomats.
Luke Mogelson
THE FRONT LINES
Civilians in Iraq struggle against
ISIS
.
FICTION
LUDMILLA Petrushevskaya
64
“THE STORY OF A PAINTER”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
ADAM Gopnik
72
77
78
Henry James’s memoirs.
Briefly Noted
THE CURRENT CINEMA
ANTHONY Lane
“Anomalisa,” “A Perfect Day.”
POEMS
John Ashbery
Bruce cohen
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56
“Dangerous Asylum”
“San Francisco, 1989: Cancelled World Series”
COVER
Anita kunz
“New Toys”
DRA
WINGS
Ken Krimstein, Will McPhail, Jason Adam Katzenstein, Liana Finck, Jack Ziegler,
Farley Katz, Michael Maslin, Drew Dernavich, Zachary Kanin, David Sipress, Tom Chitty, Edward
Steed, Michael Crawford, Trevor Spaulding
SPOTS
Joost Swarte
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CONTRIBUTORS
will publish “These Heroic, Happy
Dead,” a collection of stories, in April. Reporting for this article was funded by the
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
luke mogelson
(“THE FRONT LINES,” P. 50)
moises saman
(PHOTOGRAPHS, PP. 50, 54, 55, 60)
,
a Magnum photographer
based in Barcelona, has a new book of photographs about the Arab Spring,
entitled “Discordia,” coming out in February.
author of “The Entertainer,” is a staf
writer.
margaret talbot
(COMMENT, P. 23)
, the
musical, “Beautiful,” just began its third year on Broadway, and his documentary
“Becoming Mike Nichols” will have its world première at the Sundance Film
Festival later this month.
paul kix
(“RECOGNITION,” P. 36)
, a senior editor at
ESPN The Magazine,
is at work
douglas m
c
grath
(SHOUTS & MURMURS, P. 35)
is a filmmaker and a playwright. His
on a book about a French Resistance fighter’s three escapes from the Nazis.
lauren collins
(“BLUE BLOOD, BLUE COLLAR,” P. 42)
is a staf writer living in Paris.
won the 2015 Green Rose Prize for his new book of
poems, “Imminent Disappearances, Impossible Numbers & Panoramic X-Rays,”
which will be published in March.
Bruce Cohen
(POEM, P. 56)
ludmilla petrushevskaya
(FICTION, P. 64)
is the author of more than fifteen
books, including “There Once Lived a Mother Who Loved Her Children, Until
They Moved Back In” and a memoir, “A Girl from the Metropol Hotel,” which
will be published in the U.S. next year.
anita kunz
(COVER)
has contributed covers to the magazine since 1995. She will
be showing her work in Los Angeles and Ottawa later this year.
NEWYORKER.COM
Everything in the magazine, and more
than fifteen original stories a day.
ALSO:
DAILY COMMENT
/
CULTURAL COMMENT:
Opinions and analysis by
Hua Hsu,
Jeffrey Frank,
and others.
NEWS DESK:
Amy Davidson, Benjamin
Wallace-Wells,
and
John Cassidy
on the
State of the Union and Obama’s legacy.
CULTURE DESK:
Michael Schulman
writes about the Golden Globe
speeches, and
Richard Brody
analyzes
this year’s Oscar nominations.
PODCASTS:
On Politics and More,
Dexter Filkins
joins
Dorothy Wickenden
for a discussion about the U.S.
response to the Sunni-Shia conflict.
Plus,
David Remnick
talks to
Sarah
Koenig
about the second season of
“Serial” and why Koenig felt that she
never fit in as a newspaper writer.
SLIDE SHOW:
Photographs from the
front lines of the fight against
ISIS
in
northern Iraq.
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THE MAIL
MIAMI UNDERW
ATER
As a resident of South Florida for thirty
years, I read Elizabeth Kolbert’s piece
about the region’s flooding with inter-
est (“The Siege of Miami,” Decem-
ber 21st & 28th). For the past five years,
I have noticed environmental changes
too obvious to ignore. Many of our
beaches now are more water than sand,
and many coastal roads regularly flood.
High tides wash into beachfront con-
dos on many of our islands. When Gov-
ernor Rick Scott was asked about cli-
mate change a few years ago, while
running for reëlection, he replied, “I’m
not a scientist.” Needless to say, he kept
his job.
Stacie M. Kiner
Hypoluxo, Fla.
Residents of South Florida in the era
of rising sea levels face a daunting array
of climatological, infrastructural, and
political problems. Kolbert’s article viv-
idly enumerates these challenges, and
makes clear that underlying each of
them is a collective failure of imagina-
tion on the part of the real-estate de-
velopers, politicians, and citizens who
keep building on the waterfront and
paving over the wetland with little
concern for the long-term, or even the
medium-term, viability of the land. But
it was disheartening to read that Bruce
Mowry, Miami Beach’s city engineer,
said, “If we had poets, they’d be writ-
ing about the swallowing of Miami
Beach by the sea.” In fact, there are
many writers and poets in South Flor-
ida; they are the engineers of imagina-
tion. One of them, Cherry Pickman,
writes, in “How to Greet the Spring,”
a new work, “The sun was out / the
flood came anyway the sea rose / to take
the city plinth by plinth amaranth bled
red / into twitching schools of sil-
ver / buttonwoods to think.” I hope that
Mowry and others will find the poetry
of South Florida, and use it to reflect
on our predicament.
Tim Watson
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Fla.
Prolonged droughts, displacing millions
of people, are an important factor in
much of the recent strife in the Mid-
dle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Mean-
while, according to Kolbert, the rise in
sea levels from global warming threat-
ens to afect hundreds of millions more.
The melting of Greenland’s ice alone,
she reports, would raise global sea lev-
els by twenty feet. Greenland’s glaciers
are fresh water. One wishes that, rather
than let it all run into the ocean, we
could attempt to capture and transport
it, by a combination of barge and pipe-
line, to some of the parched areas of
the world.
Gilbert Tauber
New York City
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TRANS TV
In her piece on the groundbreaking se-
ries “Transparent” (“Dolls and Feelings,”
December 14th) Ariel Levy writes, “De-
spite the uniformity of experience sug-
gested by the label L.G.B.T., the gay
community has been accepted into
American life and politics in a way that
trans people have not.” Not only is the
bisexual community nearly invisible in
public discourse—it’s widely marginal-
ized and misunderstood within the gay
community. Even in the sexually pro-
gressive San Francisco Bay Area, many
lesbians overtly avoid relationships with
sexually fluid women. Levy describes
the trans community advocating for a
“momentous shift in thinking” to a “less
binary way of being” as “the next step
in the fight for gender equality.” Maybe
it’s also time for the L.G.B.T.Q.I. com-
munity to move beyond its increasingly
cumbersome and divisive labels and em-
brace and promote gender and sexual
fluidity as cultural norms.
Erin Dugan
Berkeley, Calif.
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