CULTURE
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A D.I.Y. Fanzine, Fifty Years On
In 1974, Ira Robbins was nineteen years old and pursuing a degree in electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic, because he…
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How Donald Trump Broke the Iowa Caucuses and Owns the G.O.P.
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The Arts Center at Ground Zero Is Finally Here. Can Bill Rauch Make It Work?
Bill Rauch became obsessed with the survival of theatre as an undergraduate at Harvard, in the early nineteen-eighties. He’d already…
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The Legend of the Selmer Mark VI
It’s hard to square this fact with specific serial-number superstitions that exist about the Mark VI. It’s not only that…
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Gaza Is Starving | The New Yorker
Last month, a United Nations report on hunger described a catastrophic situation in Gaza, where more than ninety per cent…
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Justin Torres’s Art of Exposure and Concealment
According to the author Justin Torres, “Backstory and exposition are tricks of the adult mind.” That explains why his first…
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The Year of the Orca
On the night of May 4th, the skipper Werner Schaufelberger was sailing the Swiss yacht Champagne toward a Spanish port…
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How Camille Pissarro Went from Mediocrity to Magnificence
It’s one of the stranger anomalies of French intellectual life that Impressionist painting—by far the most influential of French cultural…
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Bruce Springsteen Has a Gift He Keeps on Giving
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