documents: his work permit and identification card. His infraction: littering. Masoud waite d for hours until the guard returned the documents. BY then, he'd already lost the day ofwork. For many years, most Of the lsraeli men and women working these checkpoints were SOI- diers in the lsraeli army. But a decade ago, the crossing Masoud passed through—known as sha'ar Efraim in Hebrew and Al-Tayba in Ara- Arab states. And over the past five decades, its bic—was among the first tO privatize. NOW, occupation Of those temtories has changed con- lsraeli private security guards are mcreasingly siderably. After nearly 30 years 0f lsraeli rule, the common in the West Bank. 1994 Os10 accords created the Palestinian Author- These guards are part Of a lucrative industry that benefits from $ 200 million a year in gov- lty—which actS as a seml-autonomous govern- ment in parts 0fthe West Bank and in Gaza—and ernment contracts in the West Bank. TOday' deferred Jerusalem s status tO future negofiations. there are more than 30 crossing points between Those talks remain stalled, but the PA works lsrael and the West Bank and Gaza; since the closely with lsrael on secunty issues in the West mid-2000s, about half 0f them have fully or B ank, which angers many Pale stinians. (For the partially outsourced security tO lsraeli compa- past decade, the militant group H amas has ruled nies. The Ministry Of Defense does not directly Gaza, which is currently under lsraeli-Egypt1an employ guards, but it does contract the compa- blockade. ) After the second intifada ()r Palestin- nies that hire them and oversees training, sala- ianuprising) inthe earlY2000S the lsraeli military and working conditions. began to build a barrier between lsrael and the The Defense Ministry and Border P01ice declined t0 comment for this artlcle , but support- ers Of the shift tO using private security guards at crossing points say it is supposed tO make it easier NO MATTER WHO IS IN for both lsraelis and palestinians tO navigate the checkpoints, where violence Often erupts. CHARGE, PALESTINIANS bad for young soldiers t0 have t0 deal with move- HAVE LONG LOATHED ments ofpeople and cargo in an ongoing conflict, says Baruch Spiegel, a retired lsraeli brigadie r gen- THE CHECKPOINTS. eral and senior Ministry ofDefense adviser. 'And' ofcourse, it was bad for the image oflsrael. " llan paz, former head Of the lsraeli Defense Forces Civil Administration, the governing West Bank, and set up checkpoints throughout t0 body in the west Bank, agrees, saying the work thwart potential as sailants. (Pale stinians say they is best suited for civilians with consistent hours are part 0fan effort t0 take their land. ) and guidelines. For the lsraeli, it is not accept- lsrael started as a quasi-socialist state, but able that l'm sending my child to the army and since the 1980 waves Of privatization, particu- in the end he's working at these checkpoints. larly under prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lt's not an army issue. lt's not something that have reshaped the country and dismantled parts can done by an 18-year-01d. Of the welfare state. The move toward private But some critics say the creepmg pnvatiza- security in the west Bank, which began ⅲ the tion oflsraeli security in the West Bank and East mid -2000S , IS an extension Ofthat. Jerusalem is another way the country is further Some see this shift as an attempt tO sustain the cementing itS occupation Of these upatio n Of the We st B ank—bygettinglsraelis hiclvxeducesfthedlance s 0f th e re eve r b eing tO forget about it. MOSt Jewish lsraelis have tO a Palestinian state—or a peaceful end tO the serve in the military, and many have worked at lt's part Of sustaining the status quo, conflict. ー the checkpoints. Now, that's changing' and fewer aysmorNolinz lsraeli -re se archeromthis and fewer lsraelis have firsthand experience with phenomenon and a ph. D. candidate at the Uni- them, as working the checkpoints becomes J11St versity Of Amsterdam. lt's trymg tO make an another jOb in the security business. unsustainable situation bette r. The men and women—many ofAA7hom are lsrael captured the West Bank' East Jerusalem immigrants and working-class lsraelis WhO and the Gaza Stnp—which palestinians claim for curityjobs•whcd 0 ork P A G E 0 N E / I S R A E L 十 UNWELCOME HOST: Many residents of the occupried terri- tories are angry at the Palestinian Authority fO 「 working closely with 「 a 可 on security issues there. NEWSWEEK 31 MAY05. 2017

P A G E 0 N E / D R U G S RIGHT WING RELAPSE The new lan to kill Obamacare could just as it shows signs O progress IT WAS AN uncharacteristically qulet afternoon at Dee'S place, a warehouse turned community cen- ter tucked down an alleyway in blighted east Bal- timore, but Deborah Agus was nervous. Perched on one ofthe metal folding chalrs that lined part Of the warehouse , she alte rnate d betwe e n cau- tious optimism and anxiety about the future Of the opiOid tre atment programs she runs. The root ofher fears lies about an hour away, ln Washington, D. C. , where Republicans are push- lng a new plan t0 repeal Obamacare and funda- me ntally re structure Me dicaid, the 50 -ye ar- 01d government health program that covers Amer- ica s poor and disabled. Obamacare not only made people in Agus s program—mostly poor working men—eligible for Medicaid but also helped them access the health care services they need t0 deal with addiction, as well as the pano- ply ofhealth issues that often accompany it. For our program, getting people on Medicaid is key, ” says Agus, adding that the Republicans' plan t0 dramatically shrink federal Medicaid funding would be "devastating ・ " She was hopeful, how- ever, that it wouldn't pass. lndeed, the failure of the GOP health care overhaul in March Offered a temporary reprieve t0 thousands 0f people working t0 stave 0 代 the opi0id crisis. But as president Donald Trump and House Republicans signaled in April, they're still looking to revive their repeal. And the provi- sions they're pushing as part Of their latest com- N E W S W E E K promise could lead tO deeper cuts in addiction treatment programs, a blow tO states at the epi- center ofthe crisis, including Trump strongholds such as West Virginia and Kentucky. A year ago, ⅲ the thick ofthe 2016 presidential election, b0th Democrats and Republicans prom- ised a maJOr assault on opiOid addiction. The reality, however, has yet tO match the rhetoric, with funding and tre atment options still lagging well behind the need. Under Obamacare, addicts have started tO receive more access tO treatment, but progress has been slow. As Agus explains, it's taken time for "the ge ars [tol get movmg. But the Republicans proposals, she says, would "stop things that had been finally moving forward. Part of the problem: The GOP's attempts to undo the Democrat-backed health law are lead- lng tO uncertamty among msurers and investors. And that will likely result in further lags ・ Harvard Medical School health care econo- mist Richard Frank says there's a pretty simple reason for the sparse number ofclinics and Other treatment facilities around the country. Before Obamacare, the funding for addiction treatment was minuscule—and it relied almost entirely on grants. The new health care law brought millions more people intO the insurance market, a dispro- portionate number ofwhom suffered from men- tal illness and addiction, and requured insurers tO cover treatment for those conditions as one Of 10 "essential health benefits" requirements. 18 MAY 05 , 2017 BY EMILY CADEI 当 @emilycadei

But the Trump plan, at least what little we know suburbs and the mass adoption Ofthe car. All those politicians knew that infrastructure prOJ- about it, seems unlikely t0 get anyone safely 0 代 that ects make an economy hum. When done well (as Victonan-era bridge, let alone fix the many other oppose d t0 de molishing neighborhoods or building infrastructure blights, like the nation's ele ctrical gnd ・ bridges to nowhere), they make life better for many. The germ Of it is a paper written by economist peter And in times Of econonuc recesslon, puttlng people Navarro, a business schOOl professor turned trade tO work on shovel-ready JObs provides an important adviser in the protectionist Trump White House, and Keynesian sfimulus—albeit one that has less punch Wilbur Ross, the zillionmre secretary of commerce. lt's a crifique 0f Hillary Clinton's traditional call for a near-full employment economy, when you re Just turning baristas int0 bricklayers. That was the government-financed infrastructure spending and idea behind the Obama stimulus package 0f 2009 , instead promotes tax cuts as awayto getpnvate indus- which would have had more road monies if Republi- try t0 pay for road, bndge, sewer and 0ther repairs. cans hadn't insisted that the package be scaled down. Translation: Trump doesn't want the federal gov- The United States IS no longer ln a grinding reces- ー ernment t0 spend a 10t 0f money hiring people to sion, but Trump was right tO focus on infrastructure pave roads and build bridges. He likes a tax-cut plan during the preside ntial campaign. The country had designed t0 get the private sector t0 build roads and bridges that would turn a profit for ビ襯 . The cre- ative accounting is that you give $ 167 billion in tax 「 oR A PRESIDENT WITH cuts over 10 years, and it spurs something like $ 1 tril- lion in private mvestment. HIGH NEGATIVES, A ln the 0 Ⅳ , there 's nothing wrong with private inve st- 期 S ル三一 NFR R リ 0 ・ ment ⅲ infrastructure, but many desperately needed pr0Jects have little chance Of ever profiting investors. 刊 R 三一す E に EN れ 0 The folks who helped build a toll lane in suburban HAS す H 三 0 US リ AL Washington, D. C. , stand t0 get a good return on their APPEAL 0 ド BEING POP リ・ lnvestment because the roads there are crowded, and there are plenty ofwealthy drivers willing to pay LAR WITH EVERYBODY. for the so-called Lexus lanes. But there's no realis- tic prospect 0f a payout for fixing, say, a rural road ー in West Virginia. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan been spending about 20 percent less on water and blithely ignores such inconvenient truths as he touts transportation infrastructure than in 1959 —and his belief that every $ 1 in targeted tax cuts can spur that's while having to meet the demands of today's $ 40 Of infrastructure spending. Buried in an inter- much 01der and bigger network ofroads and sewers. ー view Trump did with The Ⅳ物 Times is his skep- The cost ofbringing it up tO a better standard is "the ticism about private financing. 'We haven t made a determination as tO public/private," he said. "There price 0f a latte per day, per family—not even for an individual," says Greg DiLoret0, the former head of the TuaIatin VaIIey Water District ⅲ Oregon and infrastructure chair at the ASCE. THE BRIDGE FROM 1840 When the Oroville dam burst in Northern California earlier this year, it was yet another reminder (like the collapse 0f an interstate highway bridge in Minne- SOta in 2007 ) that infrastructure repairs are urgently needed—north, south, east and west, red state and blue state, big city and small town. ln Washington, D. C. , the famed MemoriaI Bridge needs serious repairs. ln northern New Jersey, the Portal Bridge on the northeast rail corridor is 104 years Old, based on a design popular in Britain in the 1840S and partly made 0f wood. Across the country, ASCE found 60 , 000 bridges that are structurally deficient. Jenni- fer COhan, Delaware 's transp ortation se cretary, car- ries around a piece Of concrete that Ⅱ from one Of the state's bridges. She doesn't need t0 be hit over the head with a brick t0 know America is falling apart. TOOLTIME: Repairing America's infrastructure iS a good issue fo 「 Trump, WhO iS known (rightly 0 「 wrongly) as a successful developer. 衄 1 Ⅱ N E W S W E E K 44 M A Y 0 5 . 2 017

work there often blame one another, Selah says ・ NO matter whO is in charge, Palestinians have long loathed the checkpoints. lt's all たん ara [shit] , " Masoud says, adding that private guards treat people less "like animals" than the soldiers dO, but overall 'there's no difference. ” For pal- estinians, the checkpoints are both a physical reminder Of the occupation—and a tremendous mconvenlence. Each day, tens Of thousands of the checkpoints benefit from privatization. They Palestinians cross intO lsrael for work, business, recelve a competitive salary and have long-term SChOOl, medical care, prayer and Other servlces— job security. Yet the shift isn't cheaper for the that is, ifthey can secure the right lsraeli permit. Defense Ministry, as employing private guards With offcial unemployment in the west Bank iS more expensive than using conscripted S01- at 26 percent, many like Masoud have no other diers. On the other hand, hiring private security option but tO keep trying tO cross over. Delays or creates JObs and bOOSts the expertise Of lsrael's 1SSues With permits can lead S01 れ e palestinians tO security industry, both at home and abroad, lose a day ofwork—or their jobs. says Shira Havkin, who's documented the trend But both lsraelis and Palestinians can lose for the Van Leer lnstitute, an lsraeli think tank. much more at these checkpoints. ln recent years, Yet privatization, crltiCS say, obscures 、Ⅳ hO there have been a spate ofstabbings and car ram- is responsible if there's a problem at a check- mings in the West Bank and lsrael, as Palestinians point—the contractor or the Ministry Of have been assaulting lsraeli soldiers and civllians Defense. lt's a mess,' says Ronit selah, the in lone wolf-style attacks known as "the knife director Of the occupied territories unit at the intifada. ” since 2015 , more than 200 palestimans Association for Civil Rights in lsrael. If pales- and over 40 lsraelis have been killed in this wave timans complain, for example, about something of violence, which shows little sign of ending—no that happened at the Qalandia checkpoint, the matter whO is in charge ofthe checkpoints. ロ mam crossing point between Jerusalem and the West Bank, the many security companies that The Pulitzer Center funded reporting for this article. P A G E 0 N E / I S R A E L GATEKEEPERS: Each day, tens of thousands of Palestinians intO lsrael fo 「 work, business, school, medical care, prayer and other services. NEWSWEEK 32 MAY05, 2017

9 鷓 THE SUN HAD barely risen, and Khairy Masoud the city ofTulkarem, 仕 om lsrael. As he hurried t0 was already in trouble. lt was a cold morning in the chaotic parking 10t for a ride t0 work, he says February, and Masoud, a day laborer and father a tissue Ⅱ from his pocket. Suddenly, an armed BY lsraeli guard shouted at him in Russian-accented ofeight, had Just passed through a military check- MIRIAM BERGER point separating his home in the West Bank, near Hebrew and confiscated his most important 当 @MiriamABerger NEWSWEEK 30 MAY05 , 2017

- ィを第三一 十 SMOKE ON THE WATER: A North Korean missile launch from 2016- Pyongyang's aggressive testing has alarmed the Trump administration. Of his own: tO complete an invasion Of South Korea W1thin a week using asymmetnc capabilities (including nuclear weapons and missiles). Reunification Of the two Koreas under Pyongyang s rule, as ludicrous as that possibility seems tO the outside world, has always been the foremost goal ofboth Kim and his father. For a while, in the wake ofthe famine in the late 1990S that killed tens ofthousands 0f North Koreans and the deep, relentless poverty that followed, military strat- egists began t0 discount that possibility, believing it t0 be rhetoric unmoored from reality. AII you had t0 d0 was look at the satellite images 0f Seoul and Pyongyang at night, one brightly lit and the other dark, t0 see which half 0f Korea was strong and WhiCh was weak. And although the economic disparity hasn't changed much, the North's weaponry has, its war plan has, and its dictator's bellicose rhetoric has. The young man known in china as "Fatty Kim the Third" (Kim Jong Un is the randson Of Kim Ⅱ Sung wh0 was the su reme leader of the Democratic People's RepubIic of Korea (DPRK) from its founding in 1948 until 1994 ) appears t0 be seri- about leading a nuclear power. ln speechesy he men- tlons the reunification far more Often than his father did, North Korea watchers say. lfthe U. S. launches a pre-emp- tive strike, Kim appears likely tO hit back, starting with an artillery b arrage—thous and s 0f rounds pewhour ・一・・ー-ーー。一ー。ー一ー~ーー一 Without movlng a single soldier in its million-man rmy,%aysformer CIA analyst BruceKlingner, now at the For the past two years, the U. S. and South Korea have been practicing pre-emption exerclses. ln 2015 , they adopted a new war plan, OPLAN 5015 , that includes attacks on the North's nuclear and missile facilities, as well as decapitation attacks" against Kim Jong Un and the rest Of the North Korean le adership. South Korea also developed its own pre-emptive attack plans and has acquired, U. S. and Korean offcials say, weapons capable Of destroying some 0f North Korea's weapons Of mass destruction. ln addition, Seoul has built an elaborate defense system, which includes the recent delivery of the U. S. terminal high altitude area defense system, which shOOts down incoming missiles in the final phase oftheir descent. The U. S. does not want to have to pre-empt, ofcourse. As Trump s national security adviser, H. R. McMaster, said on t0 dissuade the North from deploying nukes on long-range missiles. "NO one is lOOking for a fight here, ” insists another ¯Trump adviserøwhowasnotauthoriz ed to spe ak about this matter on the record. Whether it does will come down tO how Kim reacts tO the pressure now being put on him by the West. The し S. knows relatively littleabouttheyoungnan s psyche and stability, but what it does know lsn't encouraging. ln addition tO his ggressivemissiletestingprogramsl<imhasanewwarpl 37 N E W S W E E K M A Y 0 5 . 2 017

to Carin Miller, the founder 0f Maryland Her- Oin Awareness Advocates. She says the standard waiting time tO get intO a detox facility in we st- ern Maryland is four to SIX weeks, which is an mprovement: lt used tO be six-plus ” weeks. MiIIer lives in Mount Airy, one ofmany idyllic CiviI War-era towns that dot this largely rural area about an hour west ofBaltimore. Like Other parts Ofrural America, it has seen a spike in 0P1- oid-related overdoses this decade, particularly smce 2013 , when a dangerous form 0f the drug fentanyl began tO make its way intO the heroin supply across the East Coast. Maryland saw its opioid-related deaths increase by 50 percent between 2013 and 2015 , a surge in fatalities that prompted Republican Governor Larry Hogan tO declare a state ofemergency earlier this year. Like many activists trying tO draw attention tO the OPiOid criSiS, the cause IS personal for Miller. She started what has become a statewide network Of treatment advocates and support groups after both her husband and son strug- gled tO find treatment for addiction tO Perco- cet. She considers herself fortunate, she says, because unlike many families she's worked with, her son and husband are still alive. Miller says She iS now seeing posltlve movement from some public offcials and health provid- ers, but it's far from the response she d expect say, "a hurricane came through here. ' Much like a natural disaster, the opiOid epidemic has left a path ofdestruction in people's lives, Miller says. "They end up with no money, no health care, unhealthy body, bad teeth, and there's just SO many symptoms that come along. These health challenges were evident at a March meeting Of the Project Connections sup- port group in east Baltimore. One 50-something man with a t00thy grin and an easy laugh ticked 0 代 his issues: glaucoma, high b100d pressure, MANY PATHS TO SICKNESS: The secondary COStS Of an opioid addiction include the many health issues hat devastate an addict's body. NEWSWEEK 20 MAY05 , 2017

HOLDING THEIR BREATH: An anti-terrorism drill in SeouI. Many believe the South Korean capital would get hit hard in a war between the し S. and Pyongyang. even though McMaster said every option "short Of war' was being considered, he also said a nuclear-capable North Korea is unacceptable [and] so the president has asked us t0 be prepared t0 give him a full range ofoptions t0 remove that threat tO the American people and tO our allies and partners in the region. ' HiS use Ofthe word 襯 0 リ seemed t0 imply a use offorce and made the governments in Seoul, T0kyo and Beijing nervous. Has Trump drawn a red line tO use all means necessary tO prevent North Korea from completing its intercontinental ballistic miSSile program? Or iS he dOing a "madman across the water ” bluff in order tO spook North Korea and instill some panic in the Chinese, hoping tO prod the latter intO using their economic leverage ( 85 percent Of North Korea s external trade is with China) tO rein in Kim? Former CIA analyst Klingner notes that, given the rapid ace@NortWKoreak2016tesEprogranvandthere tendency tO test a new president early, it might not be long before Trump gets reports of another North Korean long- issileornuclear te steThis is when thingycould ge very perilous. Another missile test does not constitute a crisis Of the sort that should trigger another Korean War. lt would, if anything, give the U. S. more leverage with China Pyongyango Yet all the chatter about pre-emption—some Of which has also N E W S W E E K 39 M A Y 0 5 , 2 017 lSSue itS own threats about pre-emption. ln a recent report widely read in the Pentagon and intel- ligence community, Klingner argued that the talk about pre-emptlon, and declarations that all options are on the table, needs to stop. "Advocacy of pre-emption both by North Korea and by the U. S. and its allies is destabilizing, he wrote, and could lead tO greater potential for either side tO miscalculate. Pyongyang may not realize that the more it demonstrates and threatens tO use 1tS nuclear prowess, the more likely allied action becomes during a crisis. Each side could misinterpret the other's intentions, thus fueling tension, intensifying a perceived need tO escalate, and raising the risk Of miscalculation, including pre-emptive attack, ” Klingner continued. "Even a tactical military incident on the Korean Peninsula always has the potential for escalating tO a strategic clash.With no appar- ent off-ramp on the highway t0 a crisis, the danger 0f a military clash on the Korean Peninsula is again rising. at iS where we are no 、 V. AS an alternatlve tO makin threats, several current and former diplomats, intelligence analysts and military offcers say, reducing tenslons now quire adyvquieedeploymentofadd itionaLmi ・ - tary har ware tO the reglon, as wel as a behind-the-scenes application 0f Chinese diplomatic muscle from what many analysts believe t0 be an increasingly exasperated BeiJing. ー Thoseare the thingsthaemaymget Kim Jong Un's head straight. One miscalculation away from the next Korean ar is way t00 close tO foranyones comfort. ロ

P A F R A N C E R E L I G 1 0 N 工 S L A N D S N R U S S 工 A D R U G S SPYTALK AL-QAEDA KILLING THE NEXT BIN LADEN lnside America's hunt to take out Ayman al-Zawahiri, the elusive leader of Al-Qaeda HE HAS BEEN the forgotten man in the West's de sp e rate c amp aign tO obliterate the lslamic State militant group (ISIS). He didn't even merit a cameo in the celebratory coverage Of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of し S. Navy SEALs in 2011. For several years, he has been described as the leader ofa spent force. Yet Ayman aI-Zawahiri, bin Laden's mentor and successor, remams a key player in an attack threat tO America that retired Marine Corps GeneralJohn Kelly, the し S. homeland security secretary, says is worse tOday than what we experienced 16 years ago on 9 / 11. ” And if 0 伍 - cials in the Donald Trump administration have their way, al-Zawahiri's name Will soon be as familiar tO the world as bin Laden's once was. The White House signaled a tougher new appro ach tO eliminating al-Zawahiri and his mil- itant allies in early ApriI with the appointment of Lisa Curtis to head the south Asia desk for the NationaI Security Council. A well-known former CIA analyst, congressional staffer and foreign policy hawk in Washington, D. C. 's think tank circtllt, Curtis caused a stir in February when she co-authored a piece arguing that the U. S. "should … hold Pakistan accountable for the activitie s Of all terrorist groups on its s Oil. ” Pakistan s Inter-Service s lntelligence agency (ISI) has b een protecting the Egyptian-born al- Zawahiri, a trained surgeon, since し S. forces evicted Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan ⅲ late 2001 , several authoritative sources tell Ⅳビルた . His most likely location today, they say: Karachi, a teemmg port city 0f26 million on the Arabian Sea. Like everything about his location, there's no posifive proo says Bruce Riedel, a 30-year CIA veteran whO was the top adviser on South Asia and the MiddIe East for the past four し S. presi- dents. "There are pretty good indications, includ- ing some 0f the material found ⅲ Abbottabad, where bin Laden was slain, 'that point in that direction," he adds. "This would be a logical place to hide out, where he would feel pretty comfort- able that the Americans can t come and get him. E I S R A E L Ⅳ耘ん rvrtmg り N00 。。。 k 当 @SpyTalker 」 EFF STEIN BY N E W S W E E K 12 M A Y 0 5 , 2 017

IN THEIR WORDS The Animal lnside Paula Cocozza runs a little wild rewilding. " when Mary HO ル知 Be H リ襯 4 Cocozza tense thriller. Who left the takes that animal behavior asks FOX tO move in, the baby there? How unhinged and turns it intO the story of reader doesn't flinch, is Mary, actually? what happens when Mary, a perhaps because we mostly Cocozza, whO spent human lll emotional disarray see him—masculine, bold— her childhood exploring following a messy breakup, from Mary's perspective. the countryside around embarks on a relationship But also, thrillingly, we her home in West Sussex, with Fox, a Vi リのおリゆお . experience his wild world England, laughs when lt s an Odd, ambitious t00. The novel so vividly I ask if she's ever been premise, but Cocozza—a portrays the hypersensory tempted tO chat tO a fox, life ofthe fox, it's as though Journalist with the but she thinks talking to G uardian—make s it work, readers hear directly animals iS pretty れ al. through his 'fisosceles the p10t following what l'm quite happy t0 be out ears" and see through his the author describes, over in the country and m00 at eyes that shrink tO a "wet the phone from London, a COW," she says. 'I don't as Mary's emotional think that's something you seam. FOX S vernacular iS mventive—a VIXen he meets necessarily grow out Of has "rippety eyes"—and at when you re not a child. My dad always said,'Morning, certain points, his thoughts Mr. Magpie,' and I do t00. align t0 the side 0fa page, tO represent hiS sense Of } { 0 ル知 Be } { リ襯 4 〃 ralses territory. "W a g g I i n g intriguing questions about IS spaced out because, the human hankering for a Cocozza says, the letters connection with the natural looked like insects. world. lt is an exciting, I really wanted his occasionally disturbing wildness to be absolutely reminder that, even ln intact, ” Cocozza tells me. C1ties, there are animals Thanks t0 a day she spent in the shadows, "half- With a fox-rescue servlce, awake things in the woods, descriptions 0fFox's smell listening, ” and that we are sharp and thoughtful: are never t00 far frOI れ a dark note between malt the wild. —LUCYJONES ロ and musk, with a smoky edge as ifblown through an exhaust. " The more general depictions ofwildlife are also exhilarating. A great tit has a "puffhead, ” and there is a smell 0f 'Juicy, leaky blackbird. " This is all very enjoyable—and —Ähen things become more uneasy: Mary finds a newborn baby on her back doorstep, everything rolled in different directions, ” and the plOt slip sfromurban p astoral t0 IT WAS WHILE Paula Cocozza was helping neighbors tidy up a patch 0f scrubland near her house in east London a couple Of years ago that she found the inspiration for her debut novel. Sensing she was being watched, she turned t0 see a fox peeking through the brambles. Over a periOd ofweeks, a sort Of communication began: The fox kept leaving holes inside holes Cocozza had dug and moving rolls 0fturf. ln BEAST FRIEND: Cocozza says She'S quite happy tO be out ⅲ the country and m00 at a COW.' = 声第 OWJO B U MA PAULÅ COCOZZA HOWTO BE HUMAN By PauIa Cocozza MetropoIitan BOOks, out now, $ 26 は 13 ) 第 NEWSWEEK 61 MAY 5 , 2017