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OCT. 5, 2015
OCTOBER 5, 2015
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GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Amy Davidson on Carly Fiorina’s rise;
hotel diplomacy; a rapper in the kitchen;
pro hockey in Brooklyn; theatrical marketing.
Alec Wilkinson
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33
34
40
47
52
SOMETHING BORROWED
A poet’s adventures in uncreative writing.
Scaachi Koul
rania Abouzeid
THE DAD RESTAURANT
OUT OF SIGHT
Iraq’s women and a former prostitute’s mission.
William Finnegan
THE MAN WHO WOULDN’T SIT DOWN
Jorge Ramos gives immigrants a voice.
jason fulford
SHOWCASE
Paper airplanes found on the streets of New York.
Jennifer Gonnerman
A DAUGHTER’S DEATH
A grieving father brokers peace in the projects.
FICTION
“VESPA”
TIM Parks
64
THE CRITICS
POP MUSIC
anwen crawford
72
75
80
82
New Order’s lasting influence.
A CRITIC AT LARGE
ALEXANDRA Schwartz
The work of Patrick Modiano.
BOOKS
adam gopnik
Urbanism and its discontents.
Briefly Noted
POEMS
JOhn Updike
mary jo bang
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69
“Coming Into New York”
“Having Both the Present and
Future in Mind”
COVER
peter de sève
“Catnap”
DRA
WINGS
Liam Francis Walsh, Sam Gross, P. C. Vey, Tom Hamilton, Tom Toro, Edward Steed,
Danny Shanahan, Paul Noth, William Haefeli, Roz Chast, Zachary Kanin, Trevor Spaulding, Kim
Warp, Marshall Hopkins, Drew Panckeri, Tom Cheney
SPOTS
Philippe Petit-Roulet
THE NEW YORKER, OCTOBER 5, 2015
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CONTRIBUTORS
William Finnegan
(“THE MAN WHO WOULDN’T SIT DOWN,” P. 40)
, a staff writer, is the
author of “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life,” which was published in July.
rania Abouzeid
(“OUT OF SIGHT,” P. 34)
is an independent journalist based in Bei-
rut and a fellow at New America. She is writing a book about the Syrian uprising.
alec wilkinson
(“SOMETHING BORROWED,” P. 26)
has been contributing to the mag-
azine since 1980. “The Protest Singer” is one of his many books.
scaachi koul
(SHOUTS & MURMURS, P. 33)
is a senior writer at BuzzFeed Canada.
She is working on her first collection of essays, entitled “The Pursuit of Misery.”
john updike
(POEM, P. 38)
, who
died in 2009, was a contributor to the magazine
for more than fifty years. This poem, written when he was twenty-one, is included
in his “Selected Poems,” which is due out in October.
jennifer gonnerman
(“A DAUGHTER’S DEATH,” P. 52)
joined
The New Yorker
as a staff
writer earlier this year. She is the author of “Life on the Outside: The Prison
Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett.”
tim parks
(FICTION, P. 64)
has published numerous books, including “Where I’m
Reading From,” a collection of essays, which came out in May.
is the author of “Live Through This,” a
book in Bloomsbury Publishing’s 33⅓ series, about popular music.
anwen crawford
(POP MUSIC, P. 72)
the 2014 Nona Balakian
Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle.
is an illustrator and a character designer for animated
films. His work can be seen in “The Little Prince,” an upcoming animated feature,
based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
peter de sève
(COVER)
alexandra schwartz
(A CRITIC AT LARGE, P. 75)
won
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THE NEW YORKER, OCTOBER 5, 2015
THE MAIL
CAPITAL CASES
Judy Clarke, the loyal opponent of the
death penalty who was profiled by Pat-
rick Radden Keefe, is a great attorney,
colleague, and friend (“The Worst of the
Worst,” September 14th). Although she
participated in the successful effort to
win a life sentence for Zacarias Mous-
saoui, she did not significantly help in
constructing the mitigation case. We
served as co-lead counsel for Moussaoui;
Clarke was part of the defense team for
a six-month period three and a half years
before the case went to trial. Her role was
limited to early work on competency lit-
igation, which came to bear in the mental-
health portion of the larger mitigation
case presented at trial. The extraor-
dinary efforts of the lawyers, investiga-
tors, and paralegals on the team, along
with the courageous testimony of the vic-
tim witnesses who testified for the de-
fense, led to Moussaoui’s life sentence. It
is also worth noting that Clarke’s level of
investigation into her clients’ backgrounds
is common practice among competent
capital-defense teams. We know many
in the capital-defense community, but we
don’t know people who call her “St.
Judy”—no doubt because everyone knows
so many others who work tirelessly (with-
out kudos or press coverage) to help their
clients’ families through generational
trauma, abuse, racism, poverty, and men-
tal illness, and to make sense of the trag-
edy at the heart of these cases. Members
of these defense teams have wells of com-
passion that run just as deep as Clarke’s,
even if you never learn their names.
Gerald Zerkin, Esq.
Henrico, Va.
Edward B. MacMahon, Jr., Esq.
Middleburg, Va.
Keefe writes that Clarke referred to Dzho-
khar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of mur-
der for detonating homemade bombs at
the Boston Marathon, by his nickname
Jahar, in order to humanize him. Clarke
also tried to have the trial moved out of
Boston, where passions were understand-
ably high. It seems dishonest to talk about
an accused murderer using the name his
family and friends used, and at the same
time try to turn his deed into an abstrac-
tion by removing the trial from the city
in which he stole loved ones from their
families and friends. Clarke says that her
clients are “the constant reminder that
there but for the grace of God go I.”
This suggests a wrongheaded belief that
every perpetrator of heinous acts must
also be viewed as a victim, someone pushed
to do evil by experiences he or she has
had. I don’t buy it.
Seth Wittner
Henderson, Nev.
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CONSCIENTIOUS POLICING
I read Ken Auletta’s piece about Bill Brat-
ton’s policing with interest (“Fixing Bro-
ken Windows,” September 7th). For more
than thirty years, I have served in inner-city
parishes in the Bronx, Philadelphia, and
Minneapolis. I have very mixed feelings
about the broken-windows strategy. I’ve
seen how addressing minor crimes can
reduce crime over all while increasing a
sense of safety. But frequently, when crime
goes down for a while, resources are taken
to other areas. Many problems—aging
housing, private and public disinvestment,
poor city services—require long-term col-
laboration among police, government agen-
cies, and members of the public. Com-
munities that suffer most from police
harassment and abuse often receive no
protective policing, period. All too often,
patrol officers act more like an occupying
army than like a force empowered to serve
a neighborhood. As the article mentions,
communities know who is breaking the
windows, and many people are ready to
work with the police to fix them. The po-
lice must show their willingness. Other-
wise, trust, and young lives, may end up
broken beyond repair.
The Reverend Patrick Cabello Hansel
Minneapolis, Minn.
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