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Conor McPherson’s Reliable Treasure

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. Conor McPherson’s small 1997 masterwork “The…

An Adolescent Crush That Never Let Up

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story John Updike’s professional relationship with The New Yorker began in 1954, when he was twenty-two and the magazine published his poem “Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums,” but his personal fascination began…

Remembrance of Scents Past

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This past August, in a windowless room of the British Library, in London, Tasha Marks was enacting her own form of time travel. Marks is a scent designer who works with…