There’s no obvious Pick Of The Issue in this week’s New Yorker (“The Anniversary Issue”). But there are plenty of transfixing details. For example: the dining room at Annisa, where, “At regular intervals, a semi-transparent section of a rear wall slides open and out comes Lo’s ornate, succulent creations, sparked by her blended heritage” (Mike Peed, “Tables For Two”); the woman attending the George Eliot conference “who had upswept blond hair and wore teetering heels and a gash of red lipstick” (Rebecca Mead, “Middlemarch and Me”); Frank Gehry’s New World Center, where “high-definition projectors inside the hall can show slides and films on five separate ‘sails,’ gently curved surfaces floating above the stage” (Alex Ross, “Schubert on the Beach”).
How does this year’s Anniversary Issue stack up against last year’s? There’s no contest. Last year’s wins easily; it contains Susan Orlean’s great “Riding High.”
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