- Annals of NatureThe Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the WorldNonhuman creatures have senses that we’re just beginning to fathom. What would they tell us if we could only understand them?By Elizabeth Kolbert
- Onward and Upward with the ArtsA Hamlet for Our TimeIn a bold new production, the director Robert Icke finds resonances in Shakespeare’s canonical play which make it feel made for this moment.By Rebecca Mead
Tag Archives: The New Yorker
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – June 6, 2022
The Magazine – June 6, 2022
Eric Drooker’s “Uvalde, May 24, 2022” – Gun violence and the American way of life.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Eric Drooker
- On May 24th, an eighteen-year-old gunman shot and killed nineteen children and two adults at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas. The horrific spree came just ten days after thirteen people were shot—ten of them killed—at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, by a self-professed white supremacist. In the past two months, Americans have also been confronted with mass shootings at a church, a flea market, and inside a subway car during the morning rush-hour. The magazine’s cover for the June 6, 2022, issue, is by the artist Eric Drooker, who echoes the weary rage of many when he says, “I hastily scrawled this image, wondering, Why are Americans so infatuated with guns in the first place? What are they so afraid of?”
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – May 30, 2022
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – May 23, 2022
Ana Juan’s “Making Mischief” – The artist discusses cats, letting fate choose a pet, and spirit animals.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Ana Juan, May 16, 2022
It is thought that cats lived alongside people for thousands of years, hunting the rodents that inevitably accompany human settlements, before they deigned to become domesticated—a state that many cat owners can attest feels provisional to this day. One research paper on the history of the house cat observes, “Let us just say that our cats do not take instruction well. Such attributes suggest that whereas other domesticates were recruited from the wild by humans who bred them for specific tasks, ancestors of domestic cats most likely chose to live among humans because of opportunities they found for themselves.”
Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – May 9, 2022
Kadir Nelson’s “Hang Time”
The artist discusses basketball, painting, and teamwork.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Kadir NelsonMay 2, 2022
For the second year in a row, basketball fans in New York have felt the sting of disappointed dreams. The Brooklyn Nets are, in the words of the staff writer Vinson Cunningham, “a theoretical super-team, not a fully realized force,” and they crashed out of the playoffs in the first round, after losing to the Boston Celtics in “a sweep that even the worst Nets pessimist wouldn’t have predicted.” And yet, on the city’s many courts, the game goes on. We spoke to Kadir Nelson about celebrating a beloved urban pastime.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – April 25, 2022
Christoph Niemann’s “Virtual Reality”
On the cover of the Innovation & Technology Issue, Christoph Niemann captures the eternal tug of war between the lure of the outside and the joys of technology. Even for a prehistoric cave dweller, the tablet could prove potently absorbing. The dilemma has only grown as the number and variety of technological gadgets has proliferated. We recently talked to the artist about the place of digital tools and good old-fashioned paper and pencil in his creative process.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – April 18, 2022
April 18, 2022 – The street corner on this week’s cover, with towering luxury condos rising among modest family homes, evokes a neighborhood in transition—a scene that is being repeated across New York City’s outer boroughs. We talked to the artist Nicole Rifkin, who lived in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights before rising rents pushed her out, about a sense of belonging and observing the small details of the place where you live.
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