Who Owns This Country?
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What a Musical Life Leaves Behind
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story What do we lose when we lose a pianist? The question is on my mind today, the anniversary of the death of the German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt, who succumbed…
A Sunset Toast to Jimmy Buffett
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When I heard on Saturday that Jimmy Buffett had died, I wrote a condolence e-mail to his longtime friend Thomas McGuane, the novelist. McGuane, who is married to Buffett’s sister Laurie,…
The Power of Food for People with Dementia
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story After dementia came for my father—after he could no longer read, after he had lost his table manners, after he had started to run his fingers through his hair, as though…
Goings On
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Alex BaraschCulture editor You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. It seems…
Wayne Thiebaud’s “Office and Shopping Mall, 2005-2021”
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021), who is best known for his celebration of the American vernacular, was thrilled when I first contacted him for a New Yorker cover, back in 2002. “When he’d…
Tessa Hadley’s Longing to Put Life Into Words
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Tessa Hadley recently published her thirtieth short story in The New Yorker—the first, “Lost and Found,” came out in 2002—and also, earlier in the summer, put out her twelfth book of…
Lagos, Glimpsed from Seven Vantages
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Traffic can be a nuisance on the streets of any city. In Lagos, it organizes daily life—for schoolchildren, for office employees, and for the scores of informal workers who sell beverages…
Deciphering the Wagner Group’s Love for Wagner
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Contemporary discourse has little patience with maddening contradictions of the kind that Wagner embodies.Photograph from brandstaetter images / Getty “Wagner calls off threat to march on Russia capital” was the disorienting…
Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first time I heard about Taylor Swift, I was in a Los Angeles County jail, waiting to be sent to prison for murder. Sheriffs would hand out precious copies of…