The New Yorker, February 8 & 15, 2016
PRICE $8.99 FEB. 8 & 15, 2016 ANNIVERSARY ISSUE FEBRUARY 8 & 15, 2016 9 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 35 THE TALK OF THE TOWN George Packer on primaries and partisanship; French doggy bags; Sonia Sotomayor; Ricky Jay; James Surowiecki on the stock market’s oil obsession. PERSONAL HISTORY Elif Batuman 42 Cover Story The head scarf, secularism, and modern Turkey. SHOUTS & MURMURS Hallie Cantor 49 Oicial Agenda for Your Sick Day LETTER FROM MILWAUKEE Matthew Desmond 50 Forced Out Eviction as a way of life. ANNALS OF INSOMNIA Patricia Marx 56 In Search of Forty Winks Tech gizmos designed to put us to sleep. A REPORTER AT LARGE Sam Knight 62 The Bouvier Afair An art-world insider’s controversial methods. REPORT FROM GROZNY Joshua Yaffa 72 Putin’s Dragon Is the ruler of Chechnya out of control? FICTION George Saunders 84 “Mother’s Day” THE CRITICS POP MUSIC Carrie Battan 94 The songwriter and performer Sia. ON TELEVISION Emily Nussbaum 97 “The People vs. O. J. Simpson.” A CRITIC AT LARGE Hilton Als 99 The d.j., producer, and m.c. Madlib. BOOKS James Wood 02 Americans looking for love in Europe. Dan Chiasson 05 The poetry of Frederick Seidel. 06 Briefly Noted POEMS Hagit Grossman 44 “On Friendship” Connie Voisine 80 “Messenger Star” COVER Liniers “Eustace Spreads Out” DRAWINGS Will McPhail, David Sipress, Zachary Kanin, Sam Gross, P. C. Vey, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Harry Bliss, Tom Cheney, Tom Toro, Barbara Smaller, Michael Maslin, Jason Adam Katzenstein, Liana Finck SPOTS Luci Gutiérrez CONTRIBUTORS George Packer (Comment, p. 35), a staf Patricia Marx (“In Search of Forty Winks,” George Saunders (Fiction, p.
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