Percentage of U.S. album sales represented by classical music : 2.5 Of U.S. music streams : 0.7 Amount spent globally on virtual goods within video games last year : $93,000,000,000…
My first reaction upon seeing what was supposedly a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing what was alleged to be a mine from the broken hull of what we were…
Rank of Canada among countries resettling the most refugees in 2018 : 1 Minimum number of years for which the United States previously held that distinction : 59 Percentage of…
This is the story of a layover. Who tells that story? I’m telling it to you now. One January evening, my flight got delayed out of Louisiana, where I’d been…
From The Undying, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. There is no more tragic piece of furniture than a bed, how it falls so quickly from…
Private Domain, a mixed-media artwork by Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, whose work was on view in April at the Carlow University Art Gallery, in Pittsburgh.
Longing, To Hover and DT—Reminiscence, Will I Be Missed, paintings on burlap by Kaveri Raina, whose work was on view in August at Luhring Augustine, in New York City. © Kaveri…
By Benjamin Moser, from Sontag: Her Life and Work, which will be published by Ecco this month. “In the Freudian conception,” wrote one author, “as it gradually emerged through these…
“Destroyed House Op Noord 5,” a photograph of an installation assembled in an abandoned house, by Marjan Teeuwen, whose work is currently on view at Les Rencontres de la photographie…
From the December 30, 1979, entry in his diary, which was released in May by the George Washington University National Security Archive. Chernyaev, a member of the Central Committee of…
By Pico Iyer, from A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, out this month from Knopf. Iyer, a British-American essayist and novelist, has lived in Nara, Japan, since 1992. Japan is the…
From descriptions of dreams in The Grave on the Wall, a memoir by Brandon Shimoda, out this month from City Lights. The book is an elegy for the author’s grandfather…
The Dancing Plague, a painting by Andy Harper, whose work was on view in January at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, in London. Courtesy the artist and Danese/Corey, New York City
From an interview given to talkRADIO on June 25 by Boris Johnson, a former mayor of London and current British M.P. who, at the time of publication, was considered a…
“Handkerchief 3,” “Handkerchief 2,” “Handkerchief 7,” and “Handkerchief 14,” ambrotypes by Susan Seubert, whose work was on view in May at Froelick Gallery, in Portland, Oregon. Courtesy the artist and…
I couldn’t leave. I couldn’t get up—just couldn’t get up, couldn’t get up or leave. All day lying in that median, unable. Was this misery or joy? It’s happened to…