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Renaissance Man

Doctor, writer, musician, and orator: Rudolph Fisher was a scientist and an artist whose métier was Harlem

Cover Story

Renaissance Man

Doctor, writer, musician, and orator: Rudolph Fisher was a scientist and an artist whose métier was Harlem

ARTICLES

The Twilight Self

Embracing mutability in a world gone mad means understanding how fantasy took hold of American psychiatry

Back to Bellevue

Two deaths nearly five decades apart and the hospital that felt like a nightmare

Acid Blues (Slight Return)

The music of Jimi Hendrix continues to strike a chord

The Enigma of Ur

Is the music of the future one in which form and structure give way to an aesthetic inspired by the primordial?

The Last Good Thing

DVDs, streaming, and the price of nostalgia

Netflix Goes to Vietnam
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When a filmmaker wanted to understand the war that changed his father, he decided to make a documentary

Musings of a Savoyard
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Searching for Gilbert and Sullivan in the 21st century

The Twilight Self

Embracing mutability in a world gone mad means understanding how fantasy took hold of American psychiatry

Back to Bellevue

Two deaths nearly five decades apart and the hospital that felt like a nightmare

Acid Blues (Slight Return)

The music of Jimi Hendrix continues to strike a chord

The Enigma of Ur

Is the music of the future one in which form and structure give way to an aesthetic inspired by the primordial?

The Last Good Thing

DVDs, streaming, and the price of nostalgia

Netflix Goes to Vietnam
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When a filmmaker wanted to understand the war that changed his father, he decided to make a documentary

Musings of a Savoyard
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Searching for Gilbert and Sullivan in the 21st century

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

The Breath Is Everything

How an encounter with the Dalai Lama led to forays into Buddhism

Shattered

After the murders in Minneapolis

The Visual Turn

Painting portraits of other people can tell us truths about ourselves

The Valedictions of Elwyn Brooks

How the eminent essayist made an art of signing off

Too HIP to Be Square
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Wagner’s Ring on period instruments?

The Heart of the Matter
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A new cardiovascular drug may be revolutionary, but what we really need is more quality time with our doctors

poetry

To Urbino We Go

Piero’s faces and the verse of Mary Jo Salter

anniversaries

fiction

commonplace book

book reviews

Hold the Salt

Reconsidering an ancient city's bad reputation

Scientists in Dreamland

What might our nightly visions mean?

Conjurer of Worlds

The writer who made fantasy history

The Minotaur’s Muses

The romantic cruelty of a brilliant artist

Compassionate Curmudgeon

Why we must root ourselves in the real world

Swept Away

A gusty tour of one of our planet's primordial forces

Jessica Mitford on the British late-night talk show After Dark; August 20, 1988 (Wikimedia Commons)

Making Trouble

A British aristocrat's leftist noblesse oblige

All His Biographers Merely Players

Retracing the Bard’s lost years