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At Ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley Still Sound Vital
In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. The venue was a disused Anglican church where...
Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so father-haunted. “What the hell is wrong with you?...
Will Paramount Cancel Jon Stewart?
That being said, I want to be clear. The victims of this Administration are not the comedians. We are a visible manifestation of certain things, but the victims are...
James Van Der Zee’s Dreamlike Images of the Departed
You could tell that he was getting back to work when the drinking stopped and the parties stopped. Sitting in uneasy silence—he hated being alone, but, spiritually, he was...
Chicago, ICE, and the Lie of the American Pastoral
The taunt—a tack—isn’t new, only reinvigorated under the current regime. Assuaging the anxieties of folks who are not from around here is a rite of passage among Chicagoans who...
Claire-Louise Bennett’s Misanthropic Breakup Novel
And the narrator, despite her waning attraction, continues to call and write to him. She is recalcitrant as a rule. This is a woman who, by the second page...
Winter Culture Previews
Lorde, Clipse,
Sudan ArchivesThere’s a little something for everyone sprinkled across this winter’s slate of shows in contemporary music. Those looking for ambience should catch the sound-design pioneer Suzanne...
Ken Jennings Talks with Tyler Foggatt
On October 25, 2025, the author and game-show host Ken Jennings joined the senior editor Tyler Foggatt onstage at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of conversations,...
