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JUNE 22, 2020
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GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
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THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jelani Cobb on what protests mean for America;
George Floyd’s lawyer; public hearings, on Zoom;
Brooklyn postcard; marching as a black immigrant.
PERSONAL HISTORY
Elizabeth
Alexander
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The Trayvon Generation
On childhood in the face of police brutality.
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Riane Konc
Jill Lepore
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Presidential Trolley Problems
AMERICAN CHRONICLES
24
The Riot Report
A long history of government inaction.
LETTER FROM MINNEAPOLIS
Luke Mogelson
30
The Uprising
How one city became the center of a movement.
PORTFOLIO
Isaac Scott
with David Remnick
Rachel Aviv
42
Whose Streets
Protesters join together in Philadelphia.
A REPORTER AT LARGE
56
Punishment by Pandemic
The chaos of the coronavirus in prison.
FICTION
Scholastique Mukasonga
Barry Blitt
66
“Grief ”
SKETCHBOOK
71
“Home Hair Styling for Men”
THE CRITICS
BOOKS
Sarah
Resnick
Adam Gopnik
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81
Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half.”
A new history of Mengele’s evil.
Briefly Noted
A CRITIC AT LARGE
Paul Elie
82
Reckoning with Flannery O’Connor’s racism.
DANCING
Jennifer
Homans
Anthony Lane
Marilyn Nelson
Terrance Hayes
Kadir Nelson
86
Choreography in a socially distant world.
THE CURRENT CINEMA
88
“Da 5 Bloods,” “The King of Staten Island.”
POEMS
60
68
“Pigeon and Hawk”
“George Floyd”
COVER
“Say Their Names”
DRAWINGS
Emily Flake, Roz Chast, Brooke Bourgeois, Colin Tom, Frank Cotham, Suerynn Lee, David Sipress, David
Borchart, Edward Steed, Jeremy Nguyen, Lonnie Millsap, Ellis Rosen, Maggie Larson
SPOTS
Iván Bravo
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CONTRIBUTORS
Elizabeth Alexander
(“The
Trayvon Gen-
eration,” p. 20)
is a poet and the author
of,
most recently, the memoir “The Light
of the World.” She is the president of
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Isaac Scott
(Portfolio,
p. 42)
is a pho-
tographer and a ceramicist based in
Philadelphia.
Jill Lepore
(“The
Riot Report,” p. 24),
a professor of history at Harvard, will
publish her latest book, “If Then,” in
September.
Luke Mogelson
(“The
Uprising,” p. 30)
has been contributing to
The New Yorker
since 2013. He is the author of the story
collection “These Heroic, Happy Dead.”
Marilyn Nelson
(Poem,
p. 60)
has writ-
ten books of poetry for adults, young
adults, and children. “Lubaya’s Quiet
Roar” is forthcoming this fall.
Paul Elie
(A
Critic at Large, p. 82),
the
author of “The Life You Save May Be
Your Own,” is a senior fellow at George-
town University’s Berkley Center for
Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
Jennifer Homans
(Dancing,
p. 86),
the
magazine’s dance critic, directs the Cen-
ter for Ballet and the Arts, at N.Y.U.
She is the author of “Apollo’s Angels.”
The New Yorker
Crossword:
Introducing
Partner Mode
Kadir Nelson
(Cover), an artist, won the
2020 Caldecott Medal for his illustra-
tions for Kwame Alexander’s book-
length poem, “The Undefeated.”
Rachel Aviv
(“Punishment
by Pandemic,”
p. 56),
a staff writer, was a 2019 national
fellow at New America.
Ronald Wimberly
(Sketchpad,
p. 19)
is
the creator of the graphic novel “Prince
of Cats” and the magazine
LAAB.
Scholastique Mukasonga
(Fiction,
p. 66),
a Rwandan writer who lives in France,
will publish her fourth book in En-
glish, the story collection “Igifu,” in
September.
Terrance Hayes
(Poem,
p. 68)
is the au-
thor of “American Sonnets for My Past
and Future Assassin” and “To Float in
the Space Between.”
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U.S. JOURNAL
A cousin of Eric Garner on what
George Floyd’s family can expect in
the fight against police brutality.
Can COVID-19 contact-tracing plans
tackle the problems of reopening?
Benjamin Wallace-Wells reports.
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Ben Taub’s account of Victor Vescovo’s
extraordinary mission to reach the five
deeps of the world’s oceans left me
in awe (“Five Oceans, Five Deeps,”
May 18th). I became concerned, how-
ever, about the implications that it may
have for the future of private explora-
tion. As one member of Vescovo’s mot-
ley crew puts it, the group’s accom-
plishment is akin to a “daily flight to
the moon.” But a key difference is that
the quest to put a man on the moon
was not only a collective enterprise in
spirit; it was also overseen by a national
government. Though Vescovo’s will-
ingness to collaborate with scientists
is admirable, he admits that someone
with a private submarine like his could
become a “Bond villain,” capable of
disrupting markets for profit or of sal-
vaging lost nuclear weaponry. In an age
in which billionaires such as Elon Musk
are becoming increasingly involved in
science and exploration, one wonders
whether it is wise to celebrate these
types of conquests by the ultra-wealthy.
Andrew Wofford
Bryn Mawr, Penn.
Taub’s fine story about Victor Vescovo
reminds us that we still have much to
learn about the world’s oceans—and
that it is single-minded (and often in-
dependently financed) entrepreneurs
who lead the way down. As I describe
in my book “Sealab,” the U.S. Navy’s
program of that name, developed in the
nineteen-sixties, was spearheaded by
an iconoclastic medical officer, Captain
George Bond, who cajoled skeptics into
pursuing his space-age dream of equip-
ping “aquanauts” to operate from under-
sea versions of space stations. Sealab
yielded scientific breakthroughs that
would eventually enable divers to go a
thousand feet or deeper—a depth that,
these days, commercial divers gener-
ally reach only when they’re working
in offshore oil fields. Might it finally
be time for a true “wet NASA?” Or
should we continue to rely on enthu-
siasts like Vescovo to address John F.
Kennedy’s observation that “knowledge
of the oceans is more than a matter of
curiosity. Our very survival may hinge
upon it”? If only another President
would set as ambitious a deadline for
ocean exploration as J.F.K. did for a
moon landing.
Ben Hellwarth
Santa Monica, Calif.
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HELPING HANDS
We should all praise the organizations
that Jia Tolentino mentions in her piece
about mutual aid (“Can I Help You?”
May 18th). However, readers should be
careful not to look at these groups
through rose-colored glasses, or to con-
struct false dichotomies between mu-
tual aid and charitable organizations.
Not all charities are inflexible behe-
moths: around sixty per cent of the
nearly one million charitable 501(c)3
organizations in the U.S. have an an-
nual income of less than a hundred
thousand dollars. As Tolentino notes,
many mutual-aid organizations end up
registering as nonprofit charities in
order to provide legal protection to
workers and volunteers, and to accept
tax-deductible donations. It seems that
Tolentino is writing just as much about
mutual aid as she is about the “para-
dox of scale”—the idea that large or-
ganizations have more capacity to help
but are more bureaucratic, whereas
smaller organizations work more closely
with communities but are relatively
limited in their reach. Even so, mutual-
aid organizations, nonprofits, and char-
ities are all part of the vital non-govern-
mental sector of citizens’ initiatives.
John P. Casey
Center for Nonprofit Strategy and
Management
Baruch College,
CUNY
New York City
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