The New Yorker - June 13, 2022

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JUNE 13, 2022
10 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
17 THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Steve Coll on Truth Social and the Trump primaries;
gun buybacks in Brooklyn; Queen Elizabeth goes platinum;
a best-seller at leisure; Tig Notaro’s family ties.
ANNALS OF NATURE
Elizabeth Kolbert 22 Contact
How animals see the world.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Dennard Dayle 27 The History of Group Projects
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS
Rebecca Mead 28 A Hamlet for Our Time
Robert Icke’s bold reinterpretation of Shakespeare.
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Patrick Radden Keefe 34 King Josh
Did a C.I.A. hacker target his own agency?
LETTER FROM SANTIAGO
Jon Lee Anderson 48 New Man
The millennial star of the Latin American left.
FICTION
Souvankham Thammavongsa 58 “Trash”
THE CRITICS
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Joan Acocella 62 Pinocchio’s many lives.
BOOKS
67 Briefly Noted
Garth Greenwell 69 The cult novels of a legendary gay writer.
THE ART WORLD
Peter Schjeldahl 72 American modernists and Walter Price.
THE CURRENT CINEMA
Anthony Lane 74 “Crimes of the Future,” “Miracle.”
POEMS
Charles Simic 38 Six Poems
Saeed Jones 55 “A Spell to Banish Grief”
COVER
Edward Koren “Out with the Old”
DRAWINGS Maddie Dai, Johnny DiNapoli, Joe Dator, Carolita Johnson, P. C. Vey, Hartley Lin, Liana Finck, Roz Chast,
Jon Adams, Jason Adam Katzenstein, Zachary Kanin, David Sipress SPOTS Hannah Robinson
His dad grew up
in a poorhouse.
CONTRIBUTORS
Patrick Radden Keefe (“King Josh,” Rebecca Mead (The Talk of the Town,
p. 34), a staff writer, is the author of p. 19; “A Hamlet for Our Time,” p. 28)
“Say Nothing” and “Empire of Pain.” has been a staff writer since 1997. She
His new book, “Rogues: True Stories most recently published “Home/Land.”
of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks,”
is out this month. Jon Lee Anderson (“New Man,” p. 48),
a staff writer, began contributing to the
Elizabeth Kolbert (“Contact,” p. 22) be- magazine in 1998. His books include
came a staff writer in 1999. Her latest “Che Guevara” and “Guerrillas.”
book is “Under a White Sky.”
Souvankham Thammavongsa (Fiction,
Charles Simic (Poems, p. 38), a Pulitzer p. 58) won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller
Prize-winning poet, will publish a new Prize for her short-story collection,
collection, “No Land in Sight,” in July. “How to Pronounce Knife.”
Joan Acocella (A Critic at Large, p. 62) Saeed Jones (Poem, p. 55) is the author
has been a staff writer since 1995. Her of the memoir “How We Fight for Our
most recent book is “Twenty-eight Lives” and the poetry collection “Pre-
Artists and Two Saints.” lude to Bruise.” His new book, “Alive
at the End of the World: Poems,” is
Edward Koren (Cover) began contrib- forthcoming in September.
uting to The New Yorker in 1962. His
exhibition “Down to the Bone” is on Dana Goodyear (The Talk of the Town,
display at the Peabody Essex Museum, p. 21) is a staff writer and the host of
in Salem, Massachusetts, through Feb- the podcast “Lost Hills.”
ruary 5, 2023.
Garth Greenwell (Books, p. 69) has
Hannah Goldfield (Tables for Two, p. 15) published “What Belongs to You” and
is the magazine’s food critic. “Cleanness.”
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