Innholdsfortegnelse for June 3, 2024 i The New Yorker

Evan Osnos (“Land of Make-Believe,” p. 26) writes about politics and foreign affairs for the magazine. His latest book is “Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury.” Molly McCloskey (“My Father’s Court,” p. 22) is the author of five books, including, most recently, the novel “Straying.” Sergio García Sánchez (Cover) is a cartoonist, an illustrator, and a professor of fine arts at the University of Granada. He collaborated on this cover with his wife, the artist Lola Moral. Olga Tokarczuk (Fiction, p. 46) won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her novel “The Empusium” will be published in English in September. Hannah Goldfield (On and Off the Menu, p. 62) is a staff writer covering food culture for the magazine. She has contributed to The New Yorker since 2010. Alex Ross (Musical Events,…

I love to watch an oyster get shucked—the heft of a calciferous shell in a steady hand, the sweep and pop of the knife, the liquor-slick shine of the reveal—and Penny, a stylish new seafood bar in the East Village, has a polished, understated swagger that somehow seems to make the oysters even better. It’s the same sort of alchemy that made late restaurants like the John Dory Oyster Bar and Pearl Oyster Bar such perfect places to slip in after work, or for a lingering lunch, to slurp down a dozen and feel a little bit more alive. Penny is owned by the restaurateur Chase Sinzer and the chef Joshua Pinsky, and is situated just upstairs from Claud, its sister restaurant, a slinky little bistro that’s been a hit…

In the spring of 1968, after a series of antiwar demonstrations and a police raid on Columbia’s campus, protesters ended the semester with a “counter-commencement.” “WHILE COLUMBIA DANCES ITS OBSCENE CEREMONY,” a flyer read, “WE WILL OPEN A LIBERATION SCHOOL FOR ALL PEOPLE.” At the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the historian Richard Hofstadter gave the official commencement address; hundreds of students walked out in protest and marched a few blocks north to an alternative graduation ceremony, where the writer Dwight Macdonald and others delivered remarks on the library steps. “While I find your strike and your sit-ins productive, I don’t think these tactics can be used indefinitely without doing more damage than good to the university,” Macdonald said. This spring, during another series of antiwar demonstrations and student…

ACROSS 1 Snowman’s arm, perhaps 5 Word after small or all 9 Bounces gently on the water 13 2021 film based on the work of Haruki Murakami 15 Magazine whose name is a pronoun 16 “Like you wouldn’t believe!” 17 “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” collaborator Haley 18 “Bessie” co-writer and director Rees 19 Specks in the sea 20 Momentary sparkle 21 Pre-relative 22 “salt.” poet Nayyirah 24 Round that eliminates two teams 26 Tasks on a list 27 Meal during which the Four Questions are asked 28 Zigzagging moves whose popularity overseas spread to the N.B.A. 32 Organs with walls 33 Inc., in Britain 34 Ordeal 35 Short contests within a larger competition, as in Mario Party 37 Multimedia artist ___ Red Star 38 Bailey who forms half of…

Vovchansk is a small Ukrainian town that sits just three miles from the border with Russia. Dotted with farmland and Soviet-era factories, it carries the memory of successive invasions and occupations. During the Second World War, as the Wehrmacht and the Red Army fought relentlessly in and around nearby Kharkiv—control of that city changed hands four times—Vovchansk was occupied by Nazi forces for more than a year. Today, two years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, as the Russian military has managed to shift momentum in its favor, the town is again at the center of decisive battles. The story of Vovchansk’s present-day occupation began on the first day of the invasion, in February, 2022, when Russian units streamed across the border. They took the town without much of a fight,…

Music history is full of object lessons in the perils—and the necessity—of perfectionism. The 1977 album “Rumours” was both Fleetwood Mac’s magnum opus and its undoing. The record was an inspiration for David Adjmi, the playwright behind “Stereophonic,” which follows a rock band over a full year spent fine-tuning the songs that will cement their fame and decimate their relationships. Peter (Tom Pecinka) is the headstrong guitarist; Diana (Sarah Pidgeon), his on-again, off-again girlfriend, is a singer coming into her own. The keyboardist, Holly (Juliana Canfield), and the bassist, Reg (Will Brill), are in a tempestuous marriage, with the drummer, Simon (Chris Stack), as an imperfect mediator. Two sound engineers, Grover (Eli Gelb) and Charlie (Andrew R. Butler), act as referees, hype men, and, occasionally, therapists. Adjmi set the…

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The man who stopped Salomea Genin on the street in West Berlin, on that August morning in 1961, smiled as if he knew her. He was a “rather handsome gentleman,” she recalls, though he would have been hard to pick out in a crowd. He brought her greetings from East Berlin, from a woman whom Genin had met on a recent visit there—a secretary in one of the Arab embassies. He wondered if Genin would like to join him for coffee the next day. Genin was quite sure that she had never seen the man before in her life. Given her history, there was a good chance that he was an East German spy. She agreed to the meeting without hesitation. Genin longed to live in East Berlin. She was…

It has never been just about the music. The notion that performers should be faceless butlers of genius, impersonally conveying sublime messages in sound, has no basis in tradition. The bonkers antics of virtuoso pianists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries prove otherwise. Franz Liszt, whose stage costumes ranged from Magyar military garb to priestly robes, would sometimes stop between pieces to chat with admirers. The infamously acerbic Hans von Bülow, while on an American tour, became so irritated at the promotional efforts of the Chickering piano company that he took out a jackknife and scraped the brand’s name off the instrument. Vladimir de Pachmann once appeared at a recital holding a pair of socks; these, he claimed, had been knitted for Chopin by George Sand. And so on:…

At former President DonaldTrump’s rally in Crotona Park, in the Bronx, last week—his first rally in the city in eight years—his fans seemed to have a wonderful time. So many flags! Some supporters were so bedecked in them, they almost trailed on the ground. And such dreadful T-shirts referring to President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris—what a thrill to wear them in public for all to see! Two hours before the event, the line waiting to get into the speaking venue in the southeast corner of the park stretched far down Crotona Park East; it didn’t move for more than an hour. The hats waited, chatting, laughing, sometimes shouting, while venders working the line yelled, “Don’t be a Democrat—get you a Trump hat!” Under the hats were people of…

The old adage about investing is that, unless you are, say, Warren Buffett, you can’t beat the market. But that’s not strictly true. Many members of Congress post excellent earnings. Consider Brian Higgins, the former Democratic congressman from New York, who quit in February: his portfolio went up 238.9 per cent in 2023. Three Republicans—Mark Green, Garret Graves, and David Rouzer—more than doubled their money. (Trading individual stocks is legal for Congress members; trading on inside info isn’t, but prosecutions are rare.) Some have demonstrated exquisite timing. Just before the pandemic, Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time, sold off as much as $1.7 million in stocks. Two weeks later, the market tanked. Not long afterward, Chris Josephs and a few friends started a social-media…

One night, when I was a sophomore in college, my father came to see me play basketball in Philadelphia. It was 1984. I was on the team at St. Joseph’s, and he was the general manager of the Detroit Pistons. He and my mother were long divorced, and I saw him only two or three times a year, when he came to town for a Pistons game or to scout a player. I had lost my starting spot at the beginning of the season, and that night I didn’t play much or particularly well. My father waited for me after the game, and as soon as I saw him I burst into tears. I can still see his expression, tender and somehow unsurprised, even though we both knew that my…

The last time we saw Imperator Furiosa, in the dystopian chase thriller “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), she had just returned from the heat of battle, her face streaked with blood, one eye swollen shut, her body so fatigued and battered that she could hardly stand. Furiosa, played by a stupendous Charlize Theron, had spent several days and nights driving an enormous truck, the War Rig, across miles of open desert, withstanding fiery assaults, a lethal sandstorm, and the surly company of a reluctant ally named Max (Tom Hardy). But triumph, at last, was hers: the vile warlord Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) lay dead at her feet, and hundreds of newly liberated desert dwellers were erupting in celebration. Amid the chaos, Furiosa scanned the crowd for Max and caught…