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The Towering Musical Integrity of Christoph von Dohnányi
[ad_1] In September, 1943, a thirteen-year-old German boy named Christoph von Dohnányi wrote an innocuous-seeming letter to his uncle Dietrich:Uncle Klaus is planning to come tomorrow. Hopefully, it will happen....
In the Dark Releases “Blood Relatives,” an Examination of a Notorious British Crime
[ad_1] On an August night in 1985, five members of one family were shot dead at Whitehouse Farm, a country manor in the rural county of Essex, in southeastern England....
Christoph Niemann’s “Market Shift”
[ad_1] For the cover of the October 27, 2025, Money Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann set out to visualize how the preposterously rich pay a disproportionately small share of taxes....
How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me”
[ad_1] In retrospect, the book feels like an artifact of a fleetingly optimistic moment, and of a time when the mainstreaming of feminism—recall Beyoncé performing in front of a screen...
Gospel Uplifts “Oratorio for Living Things” and “Oh Happy Day!”
[ad_1] So why did “Oratorio” ultimately leave me feeling wistful? Repetition, Christian tells us, is the agent of both measurement and meaning, and during “Oratorio” I found myself fixating on...
Peruvian-Chinese Cuisine with Impeccable Vibes
[ad_1] The food, too, does some artful recontextualizing. Kam lu wantan, for instance, is a classic chifa dish of deep-fried wontons that are tossed in a sweet-and-sour sauce with meat...
A Bona-Fide Disco Album That Feels Urgently of the Moment
[ad_1] Many of the paired dances of the twentieth century—the foxtrot, the waltz, the Lindy Hop—reflected the binary gender dynamics of the day: men led and women followed, on the...
Richard Linklater on His Two New Films, “Blue Moon” and “Nouvelle Vague”
[ad_1] Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Richard Linklater...
The Lessons of “The Perfect Neighbor”
[ad_1] “The Perfect Neighbor” chronicles how Lorincz, in her attempts to turn law enforcement against members of her own community, managed only to unite the two groups in shared disgust....
Tame Impala Is an Obsessive, Not a Perfectionist
[ad_1] The magic of Parker’s music—what makes his records so restless, dithery, dynamic—hinges on the minuscule yet crucial difference between perfectionism (endlessly boring) and obsession (endlessly interesting). “Everyone thinks I’m...
