The Magazine

November 11, 2019

“Down the Hatch,” by Bruce McCall.

Reporting

American Chronicles
When America Tried to Deport Its Radicals
A hundred years ago, the Palmer Raids imperilled thousands of immigrants. Then a wily official got in the way.
By Adam Hochschild
Personal History
My Year of Concussions
The thud was thicker than I’d expected. It felt as if my head had been slammed in a car door.
By Nick Paumgarten
Letter from the Amazon
Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest
Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
By Jon Lee Anderson
Profiles
Todd Haynes Rewrites the Hollywood Playbook
In film after film, including his latest, “Dark Waters,” the director asks viewers to contend with ambiguity.
By John Lahr

The Critics

Books
The Rise and Fall of Booth Tarkington
How a candidate for the Great American Novelist dwindled into America’s most distinguished hack.
By Robert Gottlieb
Books
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
“One Day,” “The Art of Return,” “Now We Shall Be Entirely Free,” and “The Next Loves.”
Books
Liberalism According to The Economist
Founded in 1843 to spread the doctrine of laissez-faire, the magazine has wielded influence like no other. But at what cost?
By Pankaj Mishra
Books
The Many Voices of Charles Wright
In the past fifty years, his poems have taken many audacious forms. They sound little like one another, but he always sounds like himself.
By Dan Chiasson
The Theatre
Richard Nelson’s Family Cycles Capture Life in Real Time
The up-to-the-minute timeliness of the playwright’s work is like a magnifying glass that focusses and intensifies the moment.
By Alexandra Schwartz
On Television
“Evil,” “9-1-1,” and the Appeal of the Network Procedural
In the era of cable and streaming, there’s still life in old-school formats.
By Emily Nussbaum
The Current Cinema
End Times in “Terminator: Dark Fate” and “Marriage Story”
Under Tim Miller’s direction, the Arnold Schwarzenegger franchise finds a novel groove; and Noah Baumbach toys with his audience as one couple dissolves.
By Anthony Lane

The Talk of the Town

Steve Coll on the impeachment inquiry’s risks; harmony in Parliament; every likeness has its price; microchip-sniﬃng dogs; Isabelle Huppert’s clues.

Comment
Impeachment Goes Public
At stake is what will sway voters more: the Trump machine’s populist propaganda or a sober presentation of damning facts.
By Steve Coll
London Postcard
In Brexit Britain, the Parliament Choir Is in Purgatory
In a thirteenth-century chapel deep inside Westminster, a choral society crosses party lines.
By Rebecca Mead
Collectibles Dept.
An “S.N.L.” Alum Among the Cosplayers
Laraine Newman and Paul (Pee-wee Herman) Reubens, both Groundlings alums, take a break from the Comic Con autograph mill.
By Paul Brownfield
Man’s Best Friend
Sit, Stay, Fight Cybercrime
A yellow lab named Hannah belongs to a new group of police dogs trained to catch child pornographers by sniffing out electronics.
By Patricia Marx
The Pictures
Isabelle Huppert’s Art of Expression
The French movie star, who plays a French movie star in “Frankie,” likes to parse paintings and words with the help of Google Translate.
By Michael Schulman

More Talk of the Town

Shouts & Murmurs

Shouts & Murmurs
The Environmental Impact of Breaking Up with Me
Please consider the untold gallons of clean, potable water that would be wasted by my crying in the shower for hours.
By Sarah Lazarus

More Shouts & Murmurs

Cartoons

Fiction

Fiction
“The Flier”
“They had failed to notice—I say this in all objectivity—one of the most wondrous occurrences in the history of humankind.”
By Joseph O’Neill

Poems

Poems
“Comedy”
“This is my new mother, who has finally admitted fear / into the raw ward of her heart.”
By Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Poems
“Aubade”
“All night, my psyche comforts itself / with you.”
By Robin Coste Lewis

Goings On About Town

Night Life
Channel Tres’s Stylish Blend of Hip-House and G-Funk
The producer and rapper performs from his concise but enthralling catalogue in a pair of shows at Brooklyn Steel, Nov. 8-9.
Art
Winter Art Preview
Kehinde Wiley, Donald Judd, and more.
By Andrea K. Scott
The Theatre
Winter Theatre Preview
Ivo van Hove’s “West Side Story,” a gender-swapped “Company” revival, and more.
By Michael Schulman
Dance
Winter Dance Preview
New choreography from Colin Dunne, Dormeshia, Alexei Ratmansky, and others.
By Marina Harss
Classical Music
Winter Classical-Music Preview
A celebration of the Nineteenth Amendment at the Philharmonic, a bounty of world-class recitalists at Carnegie Hall, and more.
By Oussama Zahr
Night Life
Winter Night-Life Preview
A roster of young R. & B. rule-breakers, an assemblage of genre-spanning big-ticket shows, and more.
By Briana Younger
Movies
Winter Movies Preview
A series of ambitious remakes, tales of political resistance, and other Oscar hopefuls.
By Richard Brody
Tables for Two
The Auspicious Treats of Pilar Cuban Bakery and Win Son Bakery
Each is an offshoot of a restaurant, and each brings to Brooklyn relatively hard-to-find delicacies from an island nation.
By Hannah Goldfield

More Goings On About Town

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