Innholdsfortegnelse for Aug-31-15 i The New Yorker

EVAN OSNOS (“THE FEARFUL AND THE FRUSTRATED,” P. 50) won the 2014 National Book Award for nonfiction for “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China.” STEVE COLL (COMMENT, P. 27) is the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and a staff writer. JELANI COBB (“CLASS NOTES,” P. 32) directs the Africana Studies Institute, at the University of Connecticut. “The Substance of Hope” is his most recent book. PATRICIA MARX (SHOUTS & MURMURS, P. 41) is the author of “Let’s Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties,” which came out in July. MICHAEL LONGLEY (POEM, P. 36) received the Griffin Poetry Prize for his collection “The Stairwell.” ELIF BATUMAN (“THE BIG DIG,” P. 42), a staff writer, is…

Some say a host of horsemen, a horizon of ships under sail is most beautiful & some say a mountain embraced by the clouds & some say the badass booty-shakin’ shorties in the club are most beautiful and some say the truth is most beautiful dutifully singing what beauty might sound under stars of a day. I say what they say is sometimes what I say Her legs long and bare shining on the bed the hair the small tuft the brown languor of a long line of sunlit skin I say whatever you say I’m saying is beautiful & whither truth beauty and whither whither in the weather of an old day suckerpunched by a spiral of Arctic air blown into vast florets of ice binding the Great Lakes…

Kathryn Schulz’s article about how the Cascadia subduction zone will trigger a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami generated attention around Puget Sound and here on the Olympic Peninsula (“The Really Big One,” July 20th). She paints a harrowing picture of what will happen to our region, based on long-known scientific projections. I have been an emergency manager for forty-five years, and nothing is more troubling to me than the Cascadia scenario. Following any disaster, the county’s emergency-operations center starts the relief-and-recovery process, funnelling critical supplies to the community. But, in the wake of a Cascadia event, getting the relief effort under way in our part of the state could take weeks or, possibly, months. We call that unknown length of time the “gap,” when we’ll be on our own, living…

“Taste of Tennis” At this series of events, which precedes the start of the U.S. Open, tennis whites means napkins. On Aug. 26, the chefs Marc Murphy, Jonathan Waxman, Floyd Cardoz, Daniel Holzman, and Bill Telepan face off on the courts of the CityView Racquet Club, where the “Top Chef Masters” finalist Kerry Heffernan and the SNY anchor Michelle Yu are the hosts. The following night, tennis pros and top local chefs show off their culinary skills, and on the 29th there’s a party where you can rub elbows with Sloane Stephens, Victoria Azarenka, and John Isner. (tasteoftennis.com.) Morbid Anatomy Flea Market A previous sale, in June, at the Morbid Anatomy Museum, in Gowanus, Brooklyn, was so popu lar that attendees had to wait two and a half hours…