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In Defense of Despair
[ad_1] The Joke I tell that no one laughs at goes like this: I picked a pretty rough time to actually want to be alive; in retrospect, back when I...
Hilton Als on the Visionary World of Alva Rogers
[ad_1] I met Alva Rogers years ago, through a mutual friend, and her various incarnations—actress, singer, artistic director, writer, puppeteer—have always been remarkable to me. As a young woman, Rogers...
On “I’m the Problem,” Morgan Wallen Goes Back to God’s Country
[ad_1] Morgan Wallen is a country singer, almost defiantly so, though he is also popular on a scale that seems to circumvent genre entirely. Each of Wallen’s past two albums...
Kanye Gave Twitter an Exclusive Hit Single
[ad_1] One of the year’s most talked-about new songs, from one of the planet’s most influential musicians, is not available on Spotify, or Apple Music, or YouTube—not officially, anyway, although...
Robert Macfarlane on Books That Hold Water
[ad_1] The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his passion for each extends to his writing. Over...
How Donald Trump’s Crypto Dealings Push the Bounds of Corruption
[ad_1] Imagine that someone in a position of great political power created a hundred billion raffle tickets and made them available for public purchase. If you buy the tickets, eventually...
In “Jetty,” a Grand Infrastructure Project Becomes Both Visually and Politically Compelling
[ad_1] The algorithm has been feeding me industrial-strength A.S.M.R.: short videos of computer-controlled lathes, in extreme closeup, doing elaborate milling of wood or metal rods. Sam Fleischner’s modest yet ambitious...
Is the Next Great American Novel Being Published on Substack?
[ad_1] This past October, subscribers to Woman of Letters, the Substack newsletter of the writer Naomi Kanakia, received an e-mail titled “Why I am publishing a novella on Substack.” This...
Our Favorite “Only in New York” Spots
[ad_1] “Only in New York” may be a cliché, but only because it’s so true. For Goings On, in our New York-themed centenary issue, we asked staff writers to share...
Sigrid Nunez on the Beauty of Narrative Restraint
[ad_1] “Plot, shmot,” the writer and editor William Maxwell once said to John Updike. Sigrid Nunez couldn’t agree more. She used to tell her students, “You don’t need a plot,...
