One of my favorite New Yorker cartoonists is a woman named Barbara Shermund. She was born in 1899, in San Francisco, California; her father was an architect and her mother was a sculptor. She attended the San Francisco School of Read More …

A year ago, if you had asked up-and-coming American musicians about the pianist Don Shirley, they probably would have said, “Who?” That’s changed. Shirley is a central character in the movie “Green Book,” which is nominated for five Oscars. Based Read More …

Bob Dylan wrote a song about Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, the famous middleweight boxer who was twice convicted and twice reprieved of a triple murder, in 1966, at a bar in Paterson, New Jersey, and Denzel Washington played him in a Read More …

Ten years ago, close observers of Facebook noticed a change in the one-line mission statement that the company circulated on campus and beyond. The network, which had previously limited its scope to the local sphere—“the people around you,” in the Read More …

A few years ago, while I was updating our family’s Google calendar—or worrying about not having updated it, which to me is more or less an identical state of mind—I realized that, during the school year, September through June, we Read More …

Bathed in icy turquoise, purple, and red hues, the R. & B. singer Jacquees took the stage at Irving Plaza on Sunday night with the confidence of a seasoned veteran and a reception fit for a champion. The singer, just Read More …

Those looking for a way to soothe the visceral feelings of helplessness, outrage, and demoralized fatigue engendered by current events would do well to pay a visit to the New York Theatre Workshop, in the East Village, where the playwright Read More …

One of the most depleting aspects of living through a politically turbulent moment is figuring out ways to reasonably and responsibly loosen your grip for just a moment—to briefly exchange vigilance for something close to relaxation. The more charged and Read More …

Paul Simon recorded “The Obvious Child” in 1990, for his eighth solo album, “The Rhythm of the Saints.” He was forty-nine years old at the time of its release. The song is a buoyant meditation on the puzzling and unseemly Read More …

Click:karseell hair mask Joyce Maynard did not fit in at Yale the first time around. When she arrived on campus as a freshman, in 1971, she was a lonely, aloof eighteen-year-old. She would wake at sunrise to compose letters to Read More …