consumers pull the plug on cable TV and get their grants—spoke up in ways business leaders rarely news from Faceb00k and Snapchat feeds. do. Google co-founder Sergey Brin joined a pro- Such economics have hurt mainstream JOur- test at San Francisco s airport. Apple CEO Tim C00k said,"lt's not a policy we support. " Netflix nalism. How could they no Fewer people doing more work, Often contributing tO print, video CEO Reed Hastings called the ban on immi- and online outlets at a frenzied pace. Last fall, grants SO un-American it pains us all. a Gallup poll showed that 32 percent 0fthe pub- These people know how to reinvent entire sec- lic and only 14 percent 0f Republicans trust the tors. We need them to step up and get intO the mainstream media. The devastating dynanucs mainstream media business and dO tO it what tech Of economics and polarization have left cen- entrepreneurs have done tO m()V1e maps, taxis trist Journalism with a dwindling fan base while and countless Other businesses: lnvest 1 れ one more people embrace the bias-stoking wings. talent and 21St- century thinking intO a vital insti- NO wonder we can't talk to one another. tution. C00k's Apple has $ 237 billion in cash on The job 0f the press is to be the public's advo- hand, and could single-handedly fund some new cate, tO ask questions Other people can t, tO work way tO produce and market gre at journalism from t0 find out what's really happening and t0 clearly, now until the first news bureau opens on Mars. Faceb00k's Mark zuckerberg may have his hands unemotionally tell people the facts. At its core, good journalism is really about giving us a way on the most powerfullevers for journalism in his- tO talk tO one another about things that matter. t0 Ⅳ . Same for Brin and Larry Page at Google. But tO get there again will require a better busi- And profitable journalism is no fairytale. Ama- READ THE NEWS ness footing, and a new way ofthinking. This is zon CEO 代 Bezos bought The Ⅳ 4 ⅲ g 知れ PO 立 TODAY, OH BOY … for $ 250 million in 2013 and invested $ 50 million where the techies come in. The easiest way After Trump caused havoc with his blitz of intO operations last year. While in the journal- tO break through the noise on Face- ism world that's like a homeless guy wmning the executive orders, tech founders and CEOs— book 0 「 Twitter Powerball jackpot, tO Bezos, it s a week's worth many ofthem first- or second-generation immi- is to be as inflam- matory and biased Of interest in his passbook savings account. But as possible. money is only part Ofit. Bezos brought in a team 十 0f engineers, revamped the 記 s app and web- site and recast the company as a "media and technology company. ” The ~ 0 立 is setting records for subscriptions and is profitable. Advertisers seem tO like being associated with integrity. WHEN WI LL TRUM P DEMAND THAT A ぐ十第 NEWSPAPERNOTBE CLOSED TO SAVE JOBS? ノ Mass marketers want to reach the broad middle. lt can get dicey for them tO wind up next tO an Alex Jone s rant about the Ob ama administration faking the killing 0fOsama bin Laden. AS we've learned in the internet era, a free press gets you nothing by itself. Without credibility, it's n01Se ーー 0 ら worse, propaganda. A ønew business model that restores the press s credibility can work in this tech age, and it ん to work. The smartest, most powerful people in tech owe the ir enormous succe SS tO a stable, thnvmg America. Reinventing journalism 1S an urgently needed way they can pay back that debt. ロ NEWSWEEK 47 02 / 17 / 2017

N E W W 0 R L D / G U N S THE BULLET VIRUS Research says gun violence iS a disease, and it's gone viral GUN VIOLENCE is gutting the United States, and the wound is increasingly visible. More than 11 , 000 Americans are killed in assaults involv- lng guns annually, with at least 50 , 000 more injured. Among people between the ages 0f 15 and 24 , mne Of every 100 , 000 lives end due tO a gun homicide. About 65 ofevery 100 , 000 peo- ple in this age group are injured by gun assaults eve ry ye ar. ln the mid-1980s, public health experts began referring t0 youth gun violence as an epidemic, and some experts tOOk that notion further, insist- ing itisn t 〃たど a disease, lt isa disease, an infectious pathogen akin t0 the one re sponsible for AID S. Until now, that assertion has remained 1 れ ore POi- gnant analogy than biting re ality. But a new study provides the first evidence gun violence behaves exactly like a blood-borne p athogen ・ Andrew Papachristos, a Yale University SOCi01- ogist whO studies crime, knew that if gun viO- lence was a disease, it should spread along a predictable path. And that path, he suspected, was social contagion, the same route taken by HIV and hepatitis C. Those pathogens travel by b100d rather than bullets, but outbreaks occur among networks ofpeople wh0 know each other. Pap achristo s po stulate d that subj e cting gun ⅵ 0- lence t0 a traditionalepidemiologic study would reveal whether it indeed behaves like a b100d - victims in 2016. Combing the records of the borne pathogen. 1 れ ore than 1.2 million arrests between 2006 To conduct his study, Papachristos and col- and 2014 , they identified people who knew BY leagues at Harvard University turned t0 Chi- each 0ther by focusing on co-offenders—people 」 ESSICA WAPNER cago, which had more than 4 , 300 shooting arrested for the same cnme. They then homed 当 @jessicawapner 4 0 D0[)Tff 辨き新 NEWS ・ WEEK 48 02 / 17 / 2017

P A R I N G S H () 1948 " Sabine Weiss 'PariS , wall and its companion shadow, the tree branch that spills through the air as that dark liquld runs over the path below. ls the casualcurve ofthe woman s arm enough tO prove that all is well? That two lovers have just tipped over a bottle ofBeauj01ais? Maybe. But some ofthe greatest cnmes have been committed in plain sight. Weiss was born in Switzerland in 1924 , and she 's still working. Unlike many of her male contemporanes, she had tO wait until her late 70S for her own s010 show. (There's a story there, and you know it already. ) She spe nt the war le arning her craft in Geneva and most ofthe 1950S under contract tO VQ 化 . ln paris, her reportage drew the eye 0fFrench photojournalist R0bert THIS PHOTOGRAPH DEMANDS AN ANSWER. IS IT LOVE, OR MURDER? D0isneau. ln 1955 , it alS0 beguiled the curators of"Family ofMan," a vast exhibition created for the Museum ofModern Art in New York that aime d t0 warm the C01d War world by claiming photography as the language 0f unive rsal humanism. N0t everyone bought the idea. Left Bank intellectuals sneered and shrugged. lt was t00 sentimental, t00 consoling. DO you detect sentimentality here? I don't. WHAT'S THE STORY? The photograph demands weiss's father was a chemist whO synthesized an answer. lS it love or murder? Cack-handedness fake pearls from fish scales. She knew, from an or malice aforethought?Wine , water or bloo 醺 early age, about the desire for false comfort—and ln 1948 , Sabine Weiss st00d on a bridge over hOW our eyes can sometimes mislead us. the Seine, collected this moment like a piece of We who live ⅲ the age ofTrump, Ph0toshop evldence and dared us tO reach a verdict. and fake news need tO interrogate images more Hitchcock would have liked her vantage point: carefully than ever. We should take a tip from high up and helpless. Like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Weiss and study the events on the street. There Ⅳⅲ面ル , weighted to the spot by a broken leg but may be blood. There may be something else. ロ 100king feverishly 仕 om apartment t0 apartment, BY Silver gelatin, 24.5 x 19.4 cm: $ 15 , 000 as part of triptych. bullding a story 0f domestic atrocity. Up here MATTHEW SWEET This and otherworks byWeissshOW atStephen DaiterGalIery, with Weiss, we can see everything. The line ofthe Chicago,toApr. 20; STEPHENDAITERGALLERY.COM @DrMatthewSweet NEWSWEEK 64 02 / 17 / 2017

CHOBA MKL4M! now a member Of the Duma security commit- tee, puts it: "There are thousands Of our citlzens fighting there. They are inadequate people 仕 om all over the world [thatl have gathered in Syria ・ The lslamic aspect is just an excuse. These peo- ple who enj oy putting othe rs on their knee s, lit- e rally and metaphoric ally, who e nJOY m aking women their sex slaves. lt's a matter Of national s ecurity tO make sure that they don't bring th at ideology back to Russia. Russia is determined tO hang on tO its new dominance in the Middle East—which means that regional leaders will have t0 find a way t0 cooperate with b0th the し S. and Russia. Trump has re ache d out to Netanyahu by inviting him tO meet in Washington next month; pledging t0 move the し S. embassy t0 Jerusalem; and appointing a pro-settler ambassador tO lsrael— all of which may dampen the Netanyahu-Pu- tin bond. (The Palestinians, however, will need Moscow more than ever. We have no hope with Trump, says Abu Zayyad, wh0 was a Palestinian negotiator in the 1994 OslO Peace Accords. ) Just as lsrael may seek a compromise between dealing with both Russia and the U. S. , so may Egypt. Alongside closer ties with Putin, Sisi has alsowarmed t0 Trump. ln aphone call, he became the first world le ade r to congratulate the billion- on hiS November election ViCtory over Hil- lary Clinton, having already been the first Arab le ader t0 me et with him during the campaign ・ Their close relationship has developed further since Trump entered the White House. After his inauguration , Trump first ge sture toward the Arab world was to call Sisi; he also hosted Jor- dan's King Abdullah Ⅱ in Washington and called several Arab leaders tO assure them ofAmerica s continue d support. One can broadly assume that [Trump and Sisi] see the world in the same way, says Hugh Lovatt, Middle East and North Africa policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. 'lt's not beyond the realm 0f imag- ination tO see a sort Of Russian-Egyptian-U.S. JOint effort ” on Middle Eastern lssues such as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Such a triad could be appealing t0 lsrael, which has developed secretive diplomatic and security ties with Egypt, more SO than with Other Arab states. For the し S. , that would be a largely new way of doing business. ln all previous Middle East peace talks, it has been the primary broker. Trump must now face an awkward reality: TO strike p e ace de als, crush terrornsm and prote ct America S economic interests in the region, he might have no chOice but tO continue express- ing admiration for the man whO made the last American president's eight years SO dffcult. ロ 5. れ 2 !OR D ETHER! for Netanyahu, a pivot from the Obama admin- istration; for putin, a challenge tO Washington's le ade rship. The re 's a 10t Of win-win situa- tions developing in the Middle East right now. Unfortunately, none ofthem apply to the U. S. PARTNER OR SPOILER? Obama may have retreated from employing Bush-like American force in the Middle East— and elsewhere—but it seems that Trump is intent on entirely abandoning America s 70-year-01d, bipartisan commitment tO being the world's most determined promoter ofdemocracy. Amer- ica s policy Of "interventlon and chaos" must end, Trump said in December. That shift, in the Kremlin s V1ew, threatens tO create a dangerous power vacuum that could be filled with lslamist sympathizers, from Libya t0 lraq t0 Syria. Though many in the West see Moscow s resurgence in terms Of building a lost empire ofprestige and influence, many top Rus- sian offcials see their Middle East deployment as a matter ofRussia's self-defense. We remember hOW many radicals came tO fight in Chechnya from the Middle East," Leonid Kalashnikov, chairm an of the Duma Commit- tee on the Former SOViet Union, tells Ⅳビル 5 ルた , referring to foreign jihadis who fought alongside rebels in separatist wars in the North Caucasus in the 1990S. "The region is right next t0 Cen- tral Asia. That is our underbelly. We have t0 be in [Syria] in order tO prevent the contagion Of terrorism from spreading. Or, as Nikolai Kovalev, a former head of the Russian domestic security service (the FSB) and 2 , 5 0 0 THE N U M B E R 0 F R U S S 工 A N WHO HAD 工 S 工 S B Y S E P T E M B E R C 工 T 工 Z E N S J 0 工 N E D M 工 D ー 2 015 NEWSWEEK 35 02 / 17 / 2017

INTERVIEW Wave Rider Yves Béhar surfs the swells of California cool, technology—and social good SEAT OF POWER: The product desi ner Yves B&har photographed at the San Francisco offices Of his company, Fuseproject, in January. BY SPENCER BAILEY 当 @Spencer Bailey THE STATE OF California—its ocean swells, its open spaces, its tech-minded culture—has shaped Yves Béhar. The Swiss-born designer first traveled there with his parents in his early teens, at the beginning of the 1980S. The family took a road trip along the coast, making stops at Hearst Castle, Big Sur and Monterey. A few years later, in his early 20S , Béhar returned tO study at the Art Center CoIlege 0f Design in Pasadena, from which he graduated with a master's degree in 1991. He has remained in the G01den State ever Slnce, running hiS company, Fusepr0Ject, prl- marily out OfSan Francisco for the past 18 years. What struck me is, compared tO Europe, the amount 0f space, b0th physical and mental, on the West Coast," Béhar says, sitting in the lobby ofthe RoyaI PaIm hotel during the Design Miami fairlast fall. Though he turns50 this May, his rum- pled hair and sunny disposition make him seem 10 years younger. What was truly mind-blowing was hOW open people were tO a SWiSS designer with a thick French accent showing up at their doorsteps. I was shy and introverted, and yet people WhO were leaders in SClence or technol- ogy opened their doors and listened tO some Of the ideas I had. I began to think that design could be at the forefront Of change, not just a sort Of skin. lt could be profound, about big ideas ・ " This line of thinking has led Béhar and Fuse - project tO create some Of the most groundbreak- ing designs t0 come out 0fSiliconValleyin the past two dec ades—including the One Laptop Per Child XO ( 2005 ) , a low-cost laptop made for easy deliv- ery t0 children in developing countries, and the Jawbone Jambox wireless speakers ( 2011 ). Béhar has also gained a strong footing in the furniture industry, with a long-running serie s 0f collabora- tions with Herman Miller. MOSt recently, he has worke d with the watchmaker Movado on a line of Swiss-made watches and with Kodak on a revival Of its super 8 home-movle camera. Just a few weeks ago, Fusepr0Ject unveiled its latest mno- vafion, in an exhibition at the Design Museum London: a prototype for "powered" act1Vlty wear that supports movement in elderly people. More than ever, Béhar says, he's focusing on the connection between health and technol- ogy, creating designs that are life-affrming or life-supporting, not Just something that is super- fluous or decorative. ” Architect David Adjaye, a close friend wh0 has shared 0ffce space New York with Fuseproject for years, describes Béhar's approach in an email: Beyond his deft technical ability, Yves seeks out challenging prOJe cts with the p otential tO empower commu- nities and democratize design. lt's rare tO find a designer whose creative brilliance is matched by his drive for positive social change. Growing up in Lausanne, on the edge 0f Lake Geneva western Switzerland, Béhar was edu- cated in what he calls a "somewhat conventional schooling system. ln class, his mind 0ften drifted. By his mid-teens, he knew he was not going t0 応 1- 10W a traditional path like finance or engineering. NEWSWEEK 57 02 / 17 / 2017

N E W W 0 R L D / M E D I A DISRUPTIVE INK-STAINED KVETCHES The best way to get better news is to make news better TECH ENTRE PRENEURS are always chatte ring that they don't care about money—they ] ust want t0 make the world better. well, here's a challenge that would do more to make a better world than yet another app like Places l've pooped. (Yes, it exists. ) HOW about coming up with a busine ss model for solid, objective journalism that appeals tO readers across the political spectrum? lt might be the most profound way t0 help close America s deep divide—and save us 仕 om something like that Russian Revolution scene in Dr. 2 んⅳ 4g0. The absence Of a common base of facts and understanding is, as they say in the White House, a bigly problem. This nation, more than perhaps any, cannot function without a widely respected press. lt's why we ve wound up with alternative facts and two political bubbles that are more polarized than dogs and cats. S01id, objective, high-integnty j ournalism has had a disastrous 21St century. lt used tO be a good business. For about 100 years before the pre-internet era, creating a news outletwas expensive. You had tO own a pnnt- ing press or radiO or TV station. That meant fewer sources ofnews—three TV networks, a newspaper or tWO in most citles—served much broader audi- ences. SO the smart business decision for a jour- nalistic enterprise was tO be apolitical; otherwise, it would alienate halfits audience. By playmg to a mass market, news made huge profits. Cable TV and, later, the internet drastically changed that equation. They made creating a news outlet cheaper, and the number of such out- lets exploded, shattering the audience into small bits. TO compete, the smart business decision became one ofplaymg t0 the biases 0f a passion- ate, narrow market. lt's hOW we got FOX News and Breitbart. ln just the past year, social media has added a rocket bOOSt tO that strategy. The way tO break through the noise on Facebook or Twitter is t0 be as inflammatory and biased as possible. The business model for broad-based, unbi- ased journalism got kicked in the gonads. At newspapers and magazme C01 第 p anie S, adver- t1Sing drained out and stock price s plummeted. New York Times CO. stock is one-fourth its 2002 peak. ln 2014 , pnnt- and online-media compames employed 20 , 000 fewer journalists than 20 years before, according tO the Pew Research Center. The situation is only getting harsher. ln 2016 , Pew counted 400 buyouts or layoffs at newspapers ・ (And, by the way, how ironic that journalists get accused Ofnot knowlng hOW it feels tO be an eco- nomic victim.When will Donald Trump demand that a newspaper れ be closed to save jobs?) ln television, CNN, Fox and other news net- works are doing well, thanks to all the viewers watching—either in JOY or horror—to see what Trump does next. Yet CNN, for instance, is no longer Ted Turner s swashbuckling independent company; it has tO worry about profit marglns as part 0f Time Warner. So we end up with cheap- to-produce panels Of arguing partisans instead of thoughtful reporting and analysis. Almost all TV news operations face similar pressures frOI れ their corporate conglomerates. Plus, TV is about tO suf- fer print media's trauma as growing numbers of BY 当 @kmaney KEVIN MANEY NEWSWEEK 46 02 / 17 / 2017

EJIA LET'S GREAT and most important ally in the Middle East. Russian Jets now operate within reach Of the GOlan Heights, a contested territory that lsrael captured from Syria in the 1967 War and now divides the tWO countries. lsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has visited Putin in Moscow three times smce September 2015 ー・ more than he has visited Obama, with whom he had a notoriously rancorous relationship. Medvedev traveled tO lsrael in November last year tO mark 25 years Of diplomatic ties between the tWO countries, and tO bOOSt trade. Netanyahu is obviously concerned about Russia s cooperation With tWO Of ene- mles, lran and the Lebanon-based Shiite militia Hezbollah. He hopes t0 harness Russian influence with lsrael's enemies tO his benefit, and, SO far, Moscow has not objected when lsrael has conducted strikes against Hezb011ah in Syria. But Netanyahu had concerns about the U. S. , t00 : POSTER BOYS: Pedestrians in DaniIovgrad, Montenegro, flank a billboard showing a picture Of Putin and U.S. President DonaId Trump. 十 Obama overruled lsraeli objections tO a nuclear deal with lran and pressured the lsraeli leader t0 stop settlement building in the West Bank, a main obstacle tO reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians. On February 2 , the White House press secretary sean spicer echoed Obama's policy, saymg "the construction Of new settle- ments or the expansion Of existing settlements beyond their current borders may not be helpful in achieving peace. Russia, on the Other hand, makes no such tiresome demands 0f lsrael. After Washington set sanctlons on Russia following the annexation of Crimea, Putin has been pushing t0 make all the friends he can get in the region in order tO "develop a second front, ” says zvi lsraeli former Magen, tO Russia. ambassador Putin needs 1 ore lever- age with the West. … One [such lever] , the new one, is the Israeli-Palestinian process. ” After putin and Netanyahu's third meet- ing in Moscow in June—1n which the Russian leader called lsrael an uncondi- tional" ally—Russia offered tO host peace negotiations in Moscow between Net- anyahu and Abbas. ln this blossoming relationship, based on pragmatism, both leaders saw an opportunity: "tRUSSIA HAS コ BECOME VERY INFLUENTIAL IN SYRIA BECAUSE THEY ENGAGE IN BEHAVIOR WHICH, IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD, WOULD B E CONDEMNED AS WAR CRIMES. ” 調ーなド 0

E E K E N D C IJ L T IJ R E , T R A V E L A N D 0 T HE R G 0 0 D N E WS THE PLACETO BE Palm Springs, C ifornia oderni Time to party, i after Hiroshima and before Vletnam, the town was a Kodachrome snapshot ofthe American dream. Their tanned fingers curled around the stems ofcocktail glasses, party guests sipped Rusty Nails and the driest Ofdry martinis, listening tO cool jazz on the decks ofhouses whose walls 0f 、 glazing opened wide t0 embrace alandscape 0f cactuses and canyons, POOIS and palms. ln February, the town s residents keep up the style at Modernism な Week, a program ofevents celebrating midcentury design. Visitors can JOin tours Of 、 some Ofthe most coveted Palm Spring homes— including Sinatra's. lfyou can't make the party, a near substitute is a new b00k from Australian photographer Tom Blachford, Midnzght M 仇 / げ〃 . This collection ofrichly colored photographs, taken by moonlight, is filled with darkly glamorous,low-slung buildings; 1950S cars sit on their drives, waiting tO take their residents on tO the next cocktail. They perfectly evoke the allure of 、 this cloud-free resort, its heart belonging to an age when, in the ragged aftermath Of 、 war, millions ofAmericans dreamed of 、 a desert life next door to Kim Novak, Carmen Miranda—and now, possibly, the Obamas. ー JONATHAN GLANCEY 、 M / 山 Modern. by 抦Ⅲ BIachford: powerHouse Books. Feb 14. $ 65. Modernism Week: Palm Springs, Feb 怖ー 26 : MODERNISMWEEK.GOM FREE OF THE White House, on January 20 Barack and Michelle Obama flew tO Palm Springs, California, the desert resort where they are rumored t0 be buying a home. G00d enough for other former presidents (Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty, lived there after leaving Washington), Palm Springs has long been home to the talented, the famous—and some ofthe lightest and most lithe mid-20th-century architecture. The resort had been booming since the late 1920S , but its aesthetic really t00k shape only after World War II. ln 1947 , having 、一 made his first million, Frank Sinatra drove intO PaIm Springs and ordered a Georgian-style mansion from architect E. Stewart Williams. lnstead, Williams created Twin Palms: an ultramodern, poolside house where H011ywood's Rat pack reveled and Ava Gardner, the future Mrs. Sinatra, hurled crockery at her fiancé. The house was as much a sign ofthe times as Sinatra. A generation Of 、 architects whO had apprenticed with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, including Richard Neutra, John Lautner and AIbert Frey—whose holiday home is pictured here—were making buildings with similar relaxed geometry and wide, floor-to-ceiling 、 windows. For every newmasterpiece, local developers George and R0bert AIexander threw up dozens ofcheaper copies; by 1965 , the brothers had built 2 , 2 ( ) ( ) modernist homes. The result?ln the years NEWSWEEK 54 02 / 17 / 2017

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sister, wh0 has died during like hidden messages. lt a failed attempt tO esape is, says Seiler, comparable with Crusoe dynamic with across the sea tO the West German mainland. Though Friday, the loyal islander they never talk about these he befriends. TO some extent, Ed's losses, they serve, Seiler says, as a baseline for their expenences the friendship. " Through poetry, author's own. seiler visited they find a way ofspeaking Hiddensee frequently during about the unspeakable, the 1980S , and worked passmg poems t0 and fro there, washing pub dishes, ⅲ the summer 0f 1989. 当 got tO know itS exotic scene Of escapists and outcasts," he says—a community that, like Others across East Germany, would change radic ally afte r the fall ofthe Berlin Wall. At one level, then, the novel's verslon ofHiddensee represents Seiler's childhood world; a place where, like Kruso, all East Germans were castaways, sealed offunwillingly from their fellow countrymen. Seiler says he had t0 wait 25 years in order tO write about the end of East Germany this way, without mentioning the wall"; it's apt, then, that a 298-year-01d story was hiS inspiration. ー- MAGGIE FERGUSSON ロ the Berlin wall fell—Seiler's FOR MANY BRITISH children growing up in the ve rS1011 ce nters on the late 1960S and early 1970S , unusual friend ship b etween the first taste OfRO 0 〃 two young men, Kruso and Ed. Ed's girlfriend has died Crusoe was a teleusion senes with haunting in a tragic accident, the theme music and Robert nature ofwhich remams H0ffmann playing the unclear; it seems possible castaway. Reading Daniel that she has committed Defoe's great novel 0f1719 suicide. ln response, he came later. SO it was for the leaves home and takes a German writer Lutz Seiler. job washing dishes at a pub His first taste ofthe story called the KIausner on the was a TV adaptation he saw (real) island ofHiddensee, at age 7 ; he read the b00k offthe Baltic Sea coast when he was 14 , growmg up 0fEast Germany. At the in East Germany. At 51 , he Klausner, Ed meets Kruso, published his debut novel, a charismatic loca し and and took Defoe for his they form a fond and starting point. complex friendship. K 川 , published in TO begin with, Kruso IS Germany in 2014 , is seiler's strong, Ed weak and needy. version 0f a thoroughly Both have lost the person British tale, set at the end of most dear to them: Ed his the Cold War and recrafted girlfriend, and Kruso his as a German parable. lt has SOld 120 , 000 COP1es, won numerous pnzes—including ま Man as lsland the Deutschen Buchpreis, the Uwe-Johnson and the Lutz Seiler turns Defoe Kaschnitz—and has been translate d intO 10 language s. into a Cold War parable A seamless English translation by Tess Lewis, published on February 9 , has already won an English PEN award. Readers might doubt whether RO わ i 〃 50 れ Cr リ 50 can work in a German s etting—they might even feel affronted that it's been atte mpte d—but S e iler 's novel springs from hiS own experience ln a way that underlines the universality ofthe tale. There is, Seiler tells me by email, something deeply appealing in an island adventure: "The fight for survival and the complete lmmerslon one S own self-reflection is something everyone can relate tO. Set in East Germany in the summer 0f1989 ー only a matter ofmonths before L リ T Z S E ー L E R KRUSO By Lutz Seiler, translated by Tess Lewis Scribe, Feb. 9 配 16.99 ( も 20 ) THEIR WORDS 嫌 0 引 NSON ' JAM: The man author Lu z SeiIer believes' fight fo 「 surviv なお $omething can relate_to." N EW S W E E 0 2 / 1 7 / 2 017