The Magazine
November 28, 2022
Reporting
Portfolio
The Blade Runners Powering a Wind Farm
In West Virginia, a crew of five watches over twenty-three giant turbines.
A Reporter at Large
An Alaskan Town Is Losing Ground—and a Way of Life
For low-lying islands like Kivalina, climate change poses an existential threat.
Letter from Antarctica
Journey to the Doomsday Glacier
Thwaites could reshape the world’s coastlines. But how do you study one of the world’s most inaccessible places?
The Critics
The Theatre
“Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,” a Pitch-Dark Comedy About Municipal Workers on the Brink
Will Arbery tackles the climate crisis with a funny nightmare about human and environmental fragility.
Books
Briefly Noted
“The Escape Artist,” “Shirley Hazzard,” “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” and “Seven Empty Houses.”
Books
What Going Off the Grid Really Looks Like
In “Cheap Land Colorado,” Ted Conover hunkers down in a valley that has become a magnet for dreamers and the dispossessed alike.
Books
How the Huxleys Electrified Evolution
Defending Darwinism from both clerical and scientific opponents, T. H. Huxley and his grandson Julian shaped how we think about the past and future of our species.
The Current Cinema
The Unlikable Souls of “Glass Onion”
Rian Johnson’s sequel to “Knives Out,” in which Daniel Craig returns as the sybaritic detective Benoit Blanc to solve a murder mystery, is extravagant but none too sturdy, and curiously cold to the touch.
The Talk of the Town
Jill Lepore on New England’s snood awakening; rebranding the shut-in; the art of broadcasting; trumpeter of the trumpets; childhood delusions.
Insulation Dept.
If You Lived Here, You’d Never Have to Leave
The Set, a new bubble inside a bubble in Hudson Yards, lets residents eat and sleep and Zoom and work without ever touching the pavement.
The Musical Life
The Four-Valve Trumpeter Who Uses Sharon Stone and Charlie Chaplin to Make Jazz
Ibrahim Maalouf, the Lebanese French horn player known for some daring collaborations, visits the Met to check out a display of rare instruments and discuss his own musical unorthodoxies.
News Hole
Live from the Brooklyn Museum—Today’s Top Stories!
Instead of making art, an artists’ collective has turned its attention to making news, broadcasting from its own news desk about Vladimir Putin, mass incarceration, and sexual harassment.
Juvenilia Dept.
Portrait of the Artists as Young Weirdos
Nauseatingly shaky camerawork! Anthropomorphic Silly Putty! A “To Catch a Predator” mock epic! It’s the Childhood Delusions Film Festival, wherein adults submit homemade films shot when they were kids.
Comment
The Return of the Wild Turkey
In New England, the birds were once hunted nearly to extinction; now they’re swarming the streets like they own the place. Sometimes turnabout is fowl play.
Cartoons
1/12
“I’m his muse, which he says is even better than co-author.”
Cartoon by Danica Novgorodoff and Michael Voll
Fiction
Fiction
The Hollow Children
“He knew the parents were praying that the bus had reached the schoolhouse before the worst hit.”
Puzzles & Games Dept.
Poems
Poems
“To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness”
A found trove of family photographs sparks a poet’s far-ranging ruminations on galaxies, generations, and the Great Migration.
Goings On About Town
Tables for Two
The Best Shrimp Cocktail, at Kingfisher
The growing Prospect Lefferts Gardens empire of André Hueston Mack and Phoebe Damrosch includes a new restaurant serving exceptional seafood.
The Theatre
“Some Like It Hot” Dresses Up for Broadway
A new musical, based on Billy Wilder’s classic man-in-a-dress comedy, splices old-school fun with contemporary gender politics.
Goings On About Town
Celebrating the Holidays in N.Y.C.
A roundup of festive events this season includes gingerbread, trees, Harry Potter, and Kiki and Herb.
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