SPOTLIGHT
Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming
Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 15, 2024
SPOTLIGHT
Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming
Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, November 15, 2024
The Patron Subjects
Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?
By Jean Strouse Thursday, November 14, 2024
“A Prayer for My Daughter” by W. B. Yeats
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Heart of Semi-Darkness
A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors
By Tim Carman Thursday, November 7, 2024
“To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Masters of Horror and Magic
The German folklorists who helped build a nation
By Anne Matthews Friday, November 1, 2024
Not Your Parents’ New York Phil
Opening night at David Geffen Hall was an attempt to reconcile with an institution’s past and map out a way for the future
By Vivien Schweitzer Monday, February 13, 2023
Past is Present
Marie Arana on how violence, exploitation, and religion have ruled Latin America’s history—and might portend its future
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 10, 2023
Housewarming
“He averted his eyes and remembered something a yoga teacher had often told him, that when you thought people were laughing at you, they were only laughing near you.”
By Dennis McFarland Thursday, February 9, 2023
“The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Michael McGregor
Colors, Colors Everywhere
By Noelani Kirschner Monday, February 6, 2023
The Promised Land of the Pampas
Javier Sinay on the forgotten history of the first Jewish immigrants in Argentina
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 3, 2023
Don’t Tell the Tourists
Hollywood’s surprising links to the antebellum South
By Laura Brodie Thursday, February 2, 2023
current issue
Plus: Augustine Sedgewick makes a new discovery about Thoreau, Joseph Horowitz brings Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler together, and Debra Spark cries foul … ball
Plus: Augustine Sedgewick makes a new discovery about Thoreau, Joseph Horowitz brings Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler together, and Debra Spark cries foul … ball
Anchoring Shards of Memory
We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present
By Joseph Horowitz Monday, September 9, 2024
Imperiled Planet
The ecological havoc we’ve wrought
By Priscilla Long Tuesday, September 3, 2024
A Stranger in the Seven Hills
A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City
By Ingrid D. Rowland Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Anchoring Shards of Memory
We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present
By Joseph Horowitz Monday, September 9, 2024
Imperiled Planet
The ecological havoc we’ve wrought
By Priscilla Long Tuesday, September 3, 2024
A Stranger in the Seven Hills
A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City