The New Yorker Magazine - September 02, 2024

In this issue

THE TALK OF THE TOWN
Jonathan Blitzer on exuberance at the D.N.C.; recording reeds at Vespertine; a symphony of odors; picturing the good life; Kamala’s balloon drop.

AMERICAN CHRONICLES
The Last Day - Alec MacGillis
As public-school enrollments drop, schools are closing.

THE POLITICAL SCENE
Life of the Party - Andrew Marantz
A shift from calamity to promise for the Democrats.

THE LAST DAY

How declining enrollment threatens education nationwide.

10+ mins

A GUIDE TO BRAT SUMMER

This summer, we’ve found ourselves in an unprecedented era of Brat.

2 mins

BUNKER MENTALITY

Shopping for a home at the end of the world.

10+ mins

LIFE OF THE PARTY

The Democrats seem rejuvenated by their new candidate. Why was it so hard to get one?

10+ mins

Early Scenes - Remembering a childhood in the South Bronx.

When I was born, in 1940, my father, Salvatore Pacino, was all of eighteen, and my mother, Rose Gerardi Pacino, was just a few years older. Suffice it to say that they were young parents, even for the time. I probably hadn’t even turned two when they split up. My mother and I lived in a series of furnished rooms in Harlem and then moved into her parents’ apartment, in the South Bronx. We hardly got any financial support from my father. Eventually, we were allotted five dollars a month by a court, just enough to cover our expenses at my grandparents’ place.

10+ mins

THE PARTICLES OF ORDER

The guest from America was to arrive in the late afternoon.

10+ mins

LIVING UNDER A ROCK

A geologist reflects on her life.

10+ mins

LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST

The forgotten history of sex in America.

10+ mins

THE COLLECTOR

Bonnie Slotnick, the downtown food-history savant.

7 mins

FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY

How Post Malone made himself at home in Nashville.

5 mins

On Television - Devil May Care - "Evil," on Paramount+.

"Evil," on Paramount+. The version of Catholicism favored by David Acosta, one of the two protagonists of the delightfully unhinged religious procedural “Evil,” likely doesn’t exist. David (Mike Colter), a Black man who starts the series as a priest-in-training, is often let down by the Church’s ossified white leadership. But his more progressive faith is accompanied by rather medieval forms of devotion. He battles against demons, participates in exorcisms, and chases the high of a formative vision of God, even if he can now only achieve moments of transcendence with the assistance of psychedelics. The temporal dislocation of his calling creates a sense of cognitive dissonance, but, in David’s view, dedicating himself to the Church, for all its imperfections, may be his best chance at insuring that the world doesn’t go to Hell in a handbasket.

6 mins

FAITH HEALING

\"Between the Temples.\"

6 mins

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