Even before the final results of Thursday's general election in the United Kingdom came in, some moderate Democrats were drawing lessons for the United States in 2020. “ Boris Johnson is winning in a walk,” Joe Biden told the…
When I think back on the musical events of the past decade, I think first of the sound of a composer talking. At the end of 2011, in the midst of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Philip Glass spoke to a crowd that had gathered on Lincoln Center…
The New Yorker
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Vinson Cunningham
– Dec 9, 3:00 AM
Let me attest, at the outset, to the hauntingly powerful—and, now, almost twenty-five years on, probably unreplicable—cultural permeation that the songs on Alanis Morissette's third album, “Jagged Little Pill,” achieved…
The New Yorker
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Michael Schulman
– Dec 8, 3:00 AM
During eight seasons of “Game of Thrones,” the character Tyrion Lannister transformed from the depraved black sheep of a powerful clan to the show's cunning, though often sorrowful, moral center. Viewers loved Tyrion for his wit, but…
Ensign Spock, a young half-Vulcan science officer fresh out of Starfleet Academy and newly posted to the Enterprise, found himself alone in a turbolift with the ship's formidable first officer, a human woman known as Number One. They were waiting…
