Leonard Cohen: A Final Interview
Cohen at his home, in Los Angeles. September 24, 2016. There is probably no more touring ahead. What is on Cohen’s mind now is family, friends, and the work at hand.Photograph by Graeme Mitchell for The New Yorker Leonard Cohen, who died this week, was one of our greatest songwriters—Bob Dylan told Cohen that he considered him his nearest rival—and is a figure of almost cult-like devotion among fa
Hiroshima
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.Photograph from Rolls Press / Popperfoto / Getty I—A Noiseless FlashAt exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East
The Stem-Cell Scandal
A group of researchers believed that subjecting tissues to trauma could give ordinary cells stem-cell-like properties.Illustration by Chad Hagen Yoshiki Sasai was known as “the brainmaker.” One of Japan’s foremost developmental biologists, he made discoveries that illuminated the formation of the embryonic nervous system, and, using stem cells, he grew the optic cup, parts of the cerebral cortex,
One of Africa’s Biggest Dams Is Falling Apart - The New Yorker
Despite efforts to slow the facility’s decline and correct structural problems, Kariba Dam is crumbling; a dam collapse at the site would prove disastrous for the entire region.Photograph by Jekesai Njikizana / AFP / Getty The new year has not been kind to the hydroelectric-dam industry. On January 11th, the New York Times reported that Mosul Dam, the largest such structure in Iraq, urgently requi
Simon & Garfunkel & Trump’s “America” - The New Yorker
“Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together I've got some real estate here in my bag" So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies And walked off to look for America You cannot comprehend how much real estate I have. Though technically it's not in my bag. I don't carry a bag. Look at me. Do you think a man of my stature carries a bag? I have a golf bag, which I do sometimes ca
Shigeru Mizuki’s War-Haunted Art and Life
In works like “Kitaro,” the iconic manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, who died last month, resurrected Japan’s folk creatures as pop culture for the masses.Kitaro (Drawn & Quarterly) by Shigeru Mizuki / Copyright Shigeru Mizuki / Mizuki Productions “In our military, soldiers and socks were consumables; a soldier ranked no higher than a cat,” the Japanese manga artist Shigeru Mizuki recalled in the after
North Korean Missile Test Delayed by Windows 8
PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report)—North Korea’s official news agency announced today that the military’s planned missile test had been put on hold because of “problems with Windows 8.” Intelligence analysts said that the announcement gave rare insight into the inner workings of North Korea’s missile program, which until last year had been running on Windows 95. The announcement from the Korean Centr
Japan After the Earthquake and Tsunami : The New Yorker
Letter from Japan Aftershocks A nation bears the unbearable. by Evan Osnos March 28, 2011 At a decontamination center, a fireman awaits arrivals from the potential contamination zone around the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. The prospect of radiation introduced a threat all its own, and one throbbing with history. Photograph by Adam Dean. The afternoon of Friday, March 11th
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger’s long silence, and his withdrawal from the world, attracted more than the usual degree of gossip and resentment—as though we readers were somehow owed more than his words, were somehow owed his personal, talk-show presence, too—and fed the myth of the author as homespun religious mystic. Yet though he may seem to have chosen a hermit’s life, Salinger was no hermit on the page. And
The New Yorker
Real-Estate Shopping for the ApocalypseThirty-nine per cent of Americans believe that we’re living in end times, and there’s a boom in the market for underground hideouts, some with high-tech air-filtration systems, indoor pools, “country club ownership” models, and one with its very own worm room. Patricia Marx went shopping.
Modern Love
The Murphys at Antibes, which they popularized as a summer resort.COURTESY BEINECKE LIBRARY, YALE / © ESTATE OF HONORIA MURPHY DONNELLY/LICENSED BY VAGA, NEW YORK, NY “Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara & Gerald Murphy,” at the Williams College Museum of Art, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is an immensely satisfying show about fine, complicated people who loved life in exemplary ways, in su
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