Listen with: iTunes WNYC Stitcher TuneIn Elizabeth Strout reads her story from the August 5 & 12, 2019, issue of the magazine. Strout is the author of six books of fiction, including “My Name Is Lucy Barton” and “Olive Kitteridge,” which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A new book, “Olive, Again,” will be […]
Your story in this week’s issue, “Motherless Child,” revolves around Olive Kitteridge, who was the protagonist of your 2008 story collection, “Olive Kitteridge,” and will be the protagonist of a sequel, “Olive, Again,” which comes out this fall. What made you want to go back to Olive (or move forward with her)? I never intended […]
In 2014, Jonathan Auerbach, a statistician studying at Columbia University, analyzed rodent complaints made to New York’s 311 call system. His goal was to create a census of the rat population—not to become a footnote in Presidential politics. His estimate of just over two million rats in the city would have been horrifying but for […]
Like most of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, his new one, “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood,” is driven by cultural nostalgia. Yet, this time around, Tarantino’s nostalgia is his film’s guiding principle, its entire ideology—in particular, a nostalgia (catnip to critics) for the classic age of Hollywood movies and for the people who were responsible for […]
In 1948, H. L. Mencken published a piece in The New Yorker about the novelist Theodore Dreiser’s much anticipated move from the Upper West Side to Greenwich Village, in the early nineteen-hundreds. At the time, the Village had a bit of a dubious reputation. “Dreiser, moving to Tenth Street, found himself in a dense mass […]
The special counsel’s congressional testimony was a piece of television unto itself—a program branded by CNN as “Robert Mueller Hearing” and by MSNBC “Robert Mueller Testifies”—inspiring an eerie feeling of calm. The makers of cable news wanted Mueller to make some news, and he demurred, generally, with the exception of reiterating alarm at the ongoing […]
Like most of Quentin Tarantino’s movies, his new one, “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood,” is driven by cultural nostalgia. Yet, this time around, Tarantino’s nostalgia is his film’s guiding principle, its entire ideology—in particular, a nostalgia (catnip to critics) for the classic age of Hollywood movies and for the people who were responsible for […]
For the past two and a half years of Donald Trump’s Presidency, I have consoled myself with the argument that, despite all the chaos and narcissism and racial incitement and norm-shattering, the American system of government is holding itself together. When Trump attempted to introduce a ban on Muslims entering the country and sought to […]
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One day not long ago, I met the photographer Jack Davison at a café in Brooklyn, during the slow hours of the afternoon. He had been beckoned Stateside from his home in London to do a commercial shoot for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s luxury fashion line, the Row, but he had spent that day wandering […]