The New Yorker 2015 07 20, Czasopisma
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//-->PRICE $7.99JULY 20, 2015J U LY 2 0 , 2 0 1 55GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN17THE TALK OF THE TOWNLawrence Wright on ISIS and a desert queen;a ticker-tape parade; welcome to work;Prospect Park haunting; gay-pride V.I.P.s.Jon Lee Anderson222930384352OPENING FOR BUSINESSA former exile gets ready for the new Cuba.Roz ChastDave EggersBACK-YARD BIRD TALKTHE ACTUAL HOLLISTERA California town with a storied name.DEXTER FILKINSDEATH OF A PROSECUTORIran, Argentina, and a stunning allegation.Art SpiegelmanKATHRYN SCHULZ“WEDDINGIN CHARLESTON”THE REALLY BIG ONEAn earthquake long overdue in the Northwest.LAUREN GROFF60FICTION“GHOSTS AND EMPTIES”THE CRITICSBOOKSIAN BURUMAGEORGE PACKER64717276A new translation of “The Tale of Genji.”Briefly NotedJohn Sifton’s “Violence All Around.”THE CURRENT CINEMAANTHONY LANE“Trainwreck,” “Mr. Holmes.”Brenda ShaughnessyTony Hoagland4657POEMS“I Have a Time Machine”“Giving and Getting”j. j. sempéCOVER“Under the Same Hat”DRAWINGSBenjamin Schwartz, Danny Shanahan, Jason Adam Katzenstein, Pat Byrnes,Edward Koren, Harry Bliss, George Booth, Carolita Johnson, Julia Suits, David Borchart, DrewDernavich, David Sipress, Liana Finck, Tom ChittySPOTSChristoph AbbrederisTHE NEW YORKER, JUL 20, 2015Y1CONTRIBUTORSdexter filkins(“DEATH OF A PROSECUTOR,” P. 38)is the author of “The ForeverWar,” which won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.jon lee anderson(“OPENING FOR BUSINESS,” P. 22)has been writing for the mag-azine since 1998. “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life” is one of his many books.lawrence wright(COMMENT, P. 17)is a staff writer. His new book, “Thirteen Daysin September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace,” was published inApril.roz chast(SHOUTS & MURMURS, P. 29), a longtimeNew Yorkerartist, has an exhibitof her work—“Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs”—at the Norman Rockwell Mu-seum, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, until October.dave eggers(“THE ACTUAL HOLLISTER,” P. 30)edited “The Voice of Witness Reader:Ten Years of Amplifying Unheard Voices,” which came out in June.brenda shaughnessy(POEM, 46), theauthor of “Our Andromeda,” will publishher fourth collection of poems, “So Much Synth,” in 2016.is a staff writer and the author of“Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.”will publish her third novel, “Fates and Furies,” inkathryn schulz(“THE REALLY BIG ONE,” P. 52)lauren groff(FICTION, P. 60)September.ian buruma(BOOKS, P. 64)teaches at Bard College. His books include “Year Zero:A History of 1945” and “Theater of Cruelty.”J. J. SEMPé(COVER)lives in Paris. He has contributed art work to the magazinesince 1978.NEWYORKER.COMEverything in the magazine, and morethan fifteen original stories a day.ALSO:DAILY COMMENT/CULTURAL COMMENT:Opinions and reflections byEvanOsnosandPeter Schjeldahl.FICTION AND POETRY:Lauren Groffnuclear deal. Plus, on Out Loud,AdamGopnik, Amelia Lester,andDavidHaglundvisit the Observatory at OneWorld Trade Center and chat aboutarchitecture in New York.VIDEO:The latest episode of “Thereads her short story “Ghosts andEmpties.” Plus,Brenda Shaughnessyreads her poem “I Have a TimeMachine.”PODCASTS:On the Political Scene,Steve CollandRobin WrightjoinDorothy Wickendento discuss the IranCartoon Lounge,” featuring high jinkson the mini-golf course withBobMankoffandColin Stokes.Plus,Richard Brodycomments on scenesfrom his Movie of the Week, OttoPreminger’s “Laura,” from 1944.SUBSCRIBERS:Get access to our magazine app for tablets and smartphones at the AppStore, Amazon.com, or Google Play. (Access varies by location and device.)2THE NEW YORKER, JUL 20, 2015YTHE MAILSURFING INTO ADOLESCENCEI recognized a lot in William Finne-gan’s descriptions of Hawaii in his pieceabout coming of age as a surfer (“OffDiamond Head,” June 1st). I am a fewyears younger—I turned twelve in 1970and started surfing a few valleys to theeast. My Hawaiian guide, Dane, wouldtake my next-door neighbor, Chris, ourfriend Mark Foo, and me out on a rot-ting old pier to breaks called “Reverse”and “Toes.” Chris was known to mostof Dane’s brothers as “da haole guy.” Iwas honored to be known as “da otherhaole guy.” Mark Foo went on to be-come a widely respected big-wave surfer.(He drowned at the infamous “Maver-icks,” near San Mateo, California, at theage of thirty-six.) I never got good atsurfing, though, and quickly gravitatedto basketball, because the University ofHawaii team was emerging as a nationalcontender, and people like me and an-other contemporary, Barry Obama, weredrawn into hoop fever. I’m pretty surewe played against each other as teen-agers, while he was at the PunahouSchool.Natan MargalitNewton, Mass.has changed since then, althoughStoker was more concerned with theundead than with shell companies.Yisrael LevinRochester, N.Y.1LIFE ON MARS1MYSTERY MANSIONAs someone who is familiar with Vic-torian literature, I could not help no-ticing a striking similarity between EdCaesar’s article about the mysteriousmansion in London and the plot ofBram Stoker’s 1897 novel, “Dracula”(“House of Secrets,” June 1st). Likethe owners of Witanhurst as they aredescribed in Caesar’s story, CountDracula is an Eastern European for-eigner who seeks to purchase primereal estate in London. The identity ofthe Count remains an enigma to oth-ers in the city, who treat him with greatsuspicion. Many critics now agree thatthis aspect of Stoker’s novel expressesVictorian xenophobia and reluctanceto accept foreigners into British soci-ety during an age of imperial global-ization. It would seem that not muchI read with interest Elizabeth Kolbert’spiece on colonizing Mars (“Project Ex-odus,” June 1st). Humans are ill suitedto space travel, which is why it is soexpensive to keep astronauts healthyand safe. As the success of the Marsrovers demonstrates, sending machinesto places and environments in our solarsystem that humans can’t reach is morethan enough to satisfy our thrill of dis-covery. Those expeditions are extremelycost-effective and don’t put people atrisk, yet advocates of human space ad-ventures have long accused such pro-grams of lacking imagination. Kolbertnotes that theNASAhistorian ErikConway sees a disconnect “betweenthe desire to travel into outer space andthe desire to understand it.” We shouldnot supplant the real environmentalimperative to preserve the earth withthe fantasy of colonizing other plan-ets. Eventually, super-rich thrill seek-ers may get to spend a long weekendon the moon; anyone who does makeit to Mars would represent an infini-tesimal fraction of the earth’s popula-tion, since the radiation there is severe,normal communication would be im-possible, and few could tolerate thepsychological toll. Making life on Mars“normal” would be a monumental wasteof resources, and the scientific returnswould be minimal. It’s unlikely that itwill ever be worth the trip.NASAshouldturn more of its attention to saving theearth rather than leaving it.John HuxholdManchester, Mo.•Letters should be sent with the writer’s name,address, and daytime phone number via e-mailto themail@newyorker.com. Letters may beedited for length and clarity, and may be pub-lished in any medium. We regret that owing tothe volume of correspondence we cannot replyto every letter or return letters.THE NEW YORKER, JUL 20, 2015Y3
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