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At Ninety, Arvo Pärt and Terry Riley Still Sound Vital
[ad_1] In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. The venue was a disused Anglican church where...
Anthony Hopkins’s Beckettian Memoir
[ad_1] Hamlet, to say the least, was in a similar pickle, and it’s almost comically appropriate that Hopkins’s memoir should be so father-haunted. “What the hell is wrong with you?...
Winter Culture Previews
[ad_1] Lorde, Clipse,
Sudan ArchivesThere’s a little something for everyone sprinkled across this winter’s slate of shows in contemporary music. Those looking for ambience should catch the sound-design pioneer Suzanne...
Ken Jennings Talks with Tyler Foggatt
[ad_1] On October 25, 2025, the author and game-show host Ken Jennings joined the senior editor Tyler Foggatt onstage at the 26th annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend of conversations,...
“Fire of Wind” Is a Bold and Inspired Début
[ad_1] There is a sense of replay in the heightened and artificial diction with which Mateus has her cast bear witness, and this sense is enhanced by the painterly compositions...
ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon
[ad_1] Last week, as ICE raids ramped up in New York, city residents set about resisting in the ways they had available: confronting agents directly on sidewalks, haranguing them as...
When a Crackdown Involving the I.R.A. Backfired, Comically, in “The Ban”
[ad_1] In Dublin in 1981, at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis—an annual convention for what was widely regarded as the Irish Republican Army’s political wing—Danny Morrison, who had become Sinn...
In Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a Vast Vision Gets Netflixed Down to Size
[ad_1] The first time we encounter the Creature, though, we see almost nothing of him at all: he is a faceless wraith, in a dark cloak and a vengeful mood,...
Sarah Jessica Parker Talks with Rachel Syme
[ad_1] On October 26, 2025, the actor Sarah Jessica Parker took the stage with the New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme for a conversation at the 26th annual New Yorker...
