Innholdsfortegnelse for May 9, 2022 i The New Yorker

Luke Mogelson (“The Wound-Dressers,” p. 46) is a contributing writer to the magazine. His book “The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible” will be out in September. This piece was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Joy Harjo (Poem, p. 66) has served three terms as the U.S. Poet Laureate. Her memoir “Poet Warrior” came out in 2021. Michael Schulman (“Dark Lady,” p. 18; The Talk of the Town, p. 17) became a staff writer in 2019. His new book, “Oscar Wars,” is forthcoming next year. Jiji Lee (Shouts & Murmurs, p. 25) is a humor writer based in New York City. Kadir Nelson (Cover) won the 2020 Caldecott Medal. His paintings are in the permanent collections of numerous institutions, including the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art and the Smithsonian National Portrait…

The last time Gage & Tollner was featured in this magazine, it had been open for fifty-two years. That was in 1931. The management at the time estimated that John Anderson, an oyster-fry cook who had recently died, shucked sixty-six million oysters in his forty-nine-year career—he was on staff when the place opened, in 1879. “Old customers are always coming in again after absences of years, and getting emotional at sight of the same ancient mahogany tables, deep with wax, the red Turkey carpet, the dim, mirrored walls,” the story said. This nostalgia continued for another seven decades, until 2004, when Gage & Tollner, named for its original owners, finally went out of business. For a few years, the downtown-Brooklyn address was occupied by a TGI Fridays, followed by an…

Spoon, shooting pool. Or really just two members of Spoon, the rock band from Texas: Britt Daniel, the singer and songwriter, and Jim Eno, the drummer. They were in a West Village pool hall called the Cellar Dog, formerly the Fat Cat, which Daniel had discovered one night some years ago when the wait to get into a few other jazz clubs nearby was too long. Spoon had a scheduled appearance the next day on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” and another after that at the Hammerstein Ballroom. But now they had time to kill—an idle afternoon on tour. Daniel and Eno ordered pints and got a table. Eno took a few cues off a rack and rolled them on the felt. In one corner, a pair of let’s-say-Bulgarian…

The original St. Michael’s Monastery, in the historic center of Kyiv, was commissioned around the year 1100 by a Christian prince, who dedicated it to the archangel and patron of soldiers after winning a war. The complex, which included a cathedral famous for its golden dome, was pillaged by the Mongols in 1240 and restored a few centuries later. In 1937, Communist authorities demolished it. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kyiv City Council had the buildings reconstructed. On March 1st, I accompanied my friend Anastasia Fomitchova to St. Michael’s. Uniformed men with Kalashnikovs patrolled the perimeter and guarded the gate. Anastasia approached a fence, through which we could see the cathedral. She bowed her head; when she lifted it, she was crying. I asked her what she…

“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” The famous line is from Brecht’s “Life of Galileo,” and it’s often trotted out in reference to repressive regimes and their dissident truthtellers: Václav Havel, in Czechoslovakia; Nelson Mandela, in South Africa; and now Alexei Navalny, in Russia. Just how unhappy political life has been in the United States was demonstrated recently in Lansing, Michigan, when Lana Theis, a Republican state senator, delivered an invocation in the legislature that melded the cadences of prayer with the lexicon of QAnon paranoia: “Dear Lord, across the country we’re seeing in the news that our children are under attack. That there are forces that desire things for them other than what their parents would have them see and hear and know.” State Senator Mallory McMorrow,…

Madison Cawthorn, the twenty-six-year-old Republican congressman from western North Carolina, has been racking up traffic tickets. In March, a cop pulled him over for crossing the centerline, in Cleveland County. As the officer discovered, Cawthorn was driving with a revoked license. Two months earlier, he’d been clocked going eighty-seven in a seventy-miles-per-hour zone, in Polk County. A few months before that, he’d been stopped for doing eighty-nine, in Buncombe County. Cawthorn didn’t have his license on him during that joyride, but a trooper let him take a mulligan for the possible misdemeanor. “Do your best to make sure you have your driver’s license on you,” the trooper said, as he wrote up a speeding ticket. “Is this something I can just go in and pay?” Cawthorn asked. The trooper told…

Much like the art of French cooking, the art of stress eating can be honed through practice, proper technique, and watching the evening news in a state of panic. Here are some of my favorite dishes that you can prepare while crying into your Le Creuset. Ratatouille This classic Provençal dish showcases fresh summer produce. If you don’t have fresh vegetables on hand, you can easily substitute Cheetos. INGREDIENTS Get the best Cheetos you can find that are in season. If the package says “Flamin’ Hot” or lists “Yellow 6” as a main ingredient, you’ll know they’re the right ones. INSTRUCTIONS In a baking dish, arrange the Cheetos in the following pattern: one layer of Cheetos; one layer of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos; repeat, alternating the Cheetos with the Flamin’ Hot…

A mile into Utah’s Little Cottonwood Canyon, heading east from Salt Lake City toward the Wasatch ski slopes, several concrete arches open into the face of a mountain. Behind doors designed to withstand a nuclear strike, through tunnels blasted six hundred feet into the rock, in a vault that’s another seven hundred feet down, lies a trove stashed in steel cases: not bullion or jewels but microfilm, millions of reels of it. They contain billions of images of genealogical documents, an estimated quarter of all vital records on earth. The collection, owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is the largest physical archive of ancestry in the world. “You hardly meet an American who does not want to be connected a bit by his birth…

Carla Zaccagnini was seated on a bench the other day, riffling through a pile of cash. “I’ve been collecting money that’s not in circulation anymore,” she said, looking up from stacks of bills sheathed in cellophane. “So, currencies that are dead.” It was five days before Zaccagnini’s first solo exhibition in the United States would open, at Amant, a nonprofit art space in Brooklyn, and three days before the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics would announce that consumer prices had risen 8.5 per cent in the past year, sparking panic about the cost of broccoli and gasoline. Zaccagnini’s show, “Cuentos de cuentas/Accounts of Accounting,” is based on her childhood in Argentina and Brazil in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, when hyperinflation drove people to hoard U.S. dollars. Zaccagnini recalled that grocery…

The invasion of Ukraine has been described as the first social-media war, and a key aspect of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s leadership has been his ability to rally his country, and much of the world, via Facebook, Telegram, TikTok, and Twitter. At the same time, war photographers in Bucha, Irpin, and beyond are working—in the tradition of Mathew Brady at Antietam or Robert Capa on Omaha Beach—to capture the grisly realities of what Vladimir Putin insists that his people call a “special military operation.” James Nachtwey, now seventy-four, is among those keeping their eyes trained on the realities. Influenced by the photography that emerged from the civil-rights movement and Vietnam, he began his career at the Boston bureau of Time and then took a job at the Albuquerque Journal. When he…

ACROSS 1 Costa ___5 Book of the Bible after John9 Pan handler?13 Sticker on a car window, perhaps14 “Get a move on!”16 Scrub, as a mission17 Without a stitch on18 You can say that again!20 Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr21 “That smarts!”23 Expanses of water24 Dish whose name means “little meats” in Spanish28 Puccini opera whose title character is an opera singer32 Verse of homage33 Befitted36 Platform for a throne37 “As if!”40 Duelling weapon41 Nyong’o of “The 355”42 When doubled, a dance move43 Cook, as baozi45 Franchise that begins “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away …”47 Bottle-cap game popular in the nineties50 Exhale in frustration51 2016 movie musical with a dance number in Griffith Observatory55 Wiggle room59 Game with a Funny Bone and an Adam’s Apple61…