Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads
In December of 2015, a video appeared on the Internet that stunned surfers worldwide. Titled “Kelly’s Wave,” it showed Kelly Slater—arguably the best pro surfer in history—unveiling a secret project h...
18 Joulu 201823min
Aaron Sorkin Rewrites “To Kill a Mockingbird”
As he set about adapting “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the stage—the play opened this week on Broadway—Aaron Sorkin first wrote a version that he says was very much like the novel, but “with stage direc...
14 Joulu 201832min
Robyn Talks with David Remnick
For the past twenty-five years, since she was a young teen-ager, the singer Robyn has been on the cutting edge of pop music. Her sound is sparse and complex, influenced by electro and dance music whil...
7 Joulu 201833min
Helen Rosner Ferments at Home, Plus Dexter Filkins on Saudi Arabia
One of the hot trends in the food world is one of the oldest: fermentation. No longer just for beer and sauerkraut, fermentation—which Helen Rosner calls “bacteria engaging with your food”—is the subj...
4 Joulu 201824min
Voter Suppression in the Twenty-First Century
In the November midterm elections, Stacey Abrams, a gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, arrived at her polling place to cast a vote for herself, only to have a poll worker claim that she had already f...
30 Marras 201831min
Bridget Everett Talks with Michael Schulman
Appearing at the New Yorker Festival, in conversation with Michael Schulman , Bridget Everett brought her dog onstage. It was unconventional, but no more so than anything else she does. Vulgar, badly ...
27 Marras 201821min
Jim Carrey Doesn’t Exist (According to Jim Carrey)
As a young boy, Jim Carrey got in trouble for staring in the mirror. He didn’t do it because he was vain; he was practicing the comic skills that made him one of the great impressionists of our time, ...
23 Marras 201836min
The Star Witnesses Against El Chapo
Last year, the Mexican government finally agreed to extradite the notorious drug kingpin El Chapo to the U.S. Born Joaquín Guzmán Loera, he was once ranked by Forbes as one of the most powerful people...
20 Marras 201823min
