| |  Books William Faulkner’s Demons In his own life, the novelist failed to truly acknowledge the evils of slavery and segregation. But he did so with savage thoroughness in his fiction. By Casey Cep | | | | | Books The Long Awakening of Adrienne Rich Some called her coarse, extreme, too quick to change. In fact, she was always one step ahead. By Maggie Doherty | | | Personal History Preparing to Spin the Wheel of Fortune You may win a lot of cash and tons of prizes, but please don’t do anything stupid, like quit your day job. By David Gilbert | | | Books Briefly Noted “Metazoa,” “Heinrich Heine,” “Aphasia,” and “Alexandria.” | | | | | | | | Poems “Gravitational” “Terra’s a magnet, and we its iron filings, / Arrayed in patterns preordained.” By Alfred Corn | | | Poems “Betye Saar’s ‘Mystic Chart for an Unemployed Sorceress’ ” “Each cold // Day warns me that my résumé is unworthy.” By Patricia Spears Jones | | | Poems “November” “The crosses all men and women / Must carry through life . . . ” By Charles Simic | | | | | | The Writer’s Voice: Fiction from the Magazine Patricia Lockwood Reads “The Winged Thing” The author reads her story from the November 30, 2020, issue of the magazine. | | | | | |  Our Local Correspondents The Art of Building the Impossible The carpenter behind some of New York’s most elaborate—and expensive—homes. By Burkhard Bilger |  On Television The Sensuality and Brutality of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” In his new film series, the director wants to vanquish any idea that British racism is somehow more repressed and less violent than the American kind. By Doreen St. Félix | | | | | | |
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