The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
Le Guin says she is “not just trying to get into other minds but other beings.”Illustration by Essy May Politics has been obsessing a lot of people lately, and Ursula K. Le Guin is far from immune to bouts of political anger. In an e-mail to me last winter, she wrote that she felt “eaten up” with frustration at the ongoing occupation of an eastern Oregon wildlife refuge by an armed band of antigov
Ian Cheng’s Alternate Realities at MOMA PS1
Shiba Inus and an undead celebrity roam an Earthlike planet in a far-off future, in a still from Ian Cheng’s digital simulations, “Emissaries.”Image courtesy the artist What if a work of art was so smart that it could free itself from the artist who made it? The digital whiz Ian Cheng takes a deep dive down that wormhole with “Emissaries,” a trio of color projections, now unfolding in three rooms
George W. Bush’s Painted Atonements
COURTESY GEORGE W. BUSH FROM “PORTRAITS OF COURAGE” (CROWN, 2017) George W. Bush looms small in memory. The Presidency fit him like grownup clothes on a toddler. He made, or haplessly fronted for, some execrable decisions, but hating him took conscious effort. The aircraft-carrier landing was kind of cute, if you squinted your conscience. “Heckuva job, Brownie” was guileless to a festering fault.
Three Psychedelic Visions of the Future of V.R. Gaming
Virtual-reality games like Thumper forgo detailed realism for trippy, but still visceral, abstraction.Courtesy Drool LLC Ten years ago, at All Tomorrow’s Parties, a now-defunct music festival held occasionally in the rain-harangued British seaside town of Camber Sands, I attended a show by Lightning Bolt, a noise-rock duo from Providence, Rhode Island. They had set up in the center of a grubby hal
Haruki Murakami: A Podcast with translator Jay Rubin : The New Yorker
In the September 5th issue of the magazine, Haruki Murakami has a piece of fiction called “Town of Cats.” Here Blake Eskin talks with Murakami’s longtime translator Jay Rubin about how he became a Murakami fan and translator, the reception in Japan of Murakami’s latest novel, “1Q84,” and why Rubin doesn’t recommend reading literature in translation. Listen to the mp3 on the player above, or right-
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