Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The late Daniel Ellsberg, in his book “The Doomsday Machine,” drew attention to a curious conversation that took place between Albert Speer and Adolf Hitler in the summer of 1942, on…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story News cycles, by nature, tend to document crises as discrete events. Suffusive emergencies—like the climate crisis—are captured mostly in the accelerating pace and frequency of such coverage. The increasing regularity of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Since 1992, when she released “Dry,” her début album, PJ Harvey has made complex music that channels a primal, earthly energy. For me, her work has always conjured images of the…
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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Waves Only Get Real When They Break,” by Colin Farish (piano), Jaron Lanier (guzheng), and Jhaffur Khan (flute). It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s unfortunate that fantasy has glutted the movies and tarnished the genre’s name with the commercial excesses of superhero stories and C.G.I. animation, because fantasy is a far more severe test…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a rainy morning in March, George Dawes Green, a seventy-year-old novelist and the founder of the storytelling nonprofit the Moth, arrived at Millstone Landing, about twenty miles north of Savannah,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The scientist Tim Shields, who, in his field work, had been finding an ever-increasing number of dead tortoises, says that he grew frustrated with merely “taking notes on the catastrophe.” A…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are more than eighty-nine million cows in this country, and one of them is leaning through Aunt Diane’s window. Raj is a Holstein-Brahman cross, but he seems more like a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Some rediscovered archival recordings by great musicians are more noteworthy for their news value than for their artistic significance. Others are treasures that extend a view of the artists’ achievements without…
