Alex Barron

Chance is one of the biggest stars in hip-hop, and one of the most political musicians working today. He talks with David Remnick about the fight for racial justice in Chicago.

The musician, who releases a new album this week, describes how the coronavirus pandemic changed his creative process.

The novelist Donald Antrim on the power of music.

A New Yorker music critic on listening to classic field recordings while stuck in quarantine. 

An anti-racism trainer examines white supremacy in America, and how hard it is for those who benefit from structural racism to acknowledge its existence.

The film critic Richard Brody talks with Decker, one of his favorite directors of this era, about her unique approach to filmmaking and her Shirley Jackson bio-pic.

A reality-show mogul and multibillionaire offers a surprising approach to the economic crisis: socialism.

In Peter Cameron’s short story, an angst-ridden teen wages a campaign of silence against the stepfather he can’t abide.

When her students were sent home from school owing to the coronavirus outbreak, an English teacher assigned them Albert Camus’s novel “The Plague.”

The film critic shares his picks from an extensive review of plague-themed cinema.

The comedian says he’s okay with dying, as long as he gets to do it his way.  By meteor, for example.

April 15th was estimated to be an apex of COVID-19 in New York. New Yorker writers fanned out across the city to document twenty-four hours at the epicenter.

The writer Yiyun Li says there is no better book for a time of uncertainty and fear than Tolstoy’s epic of Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.

The staff writer picks a few things that lift her spirits: an Instagram feed of pandemic-chic outfits, a novel about the German occupation of France, and an aquarium live stream.

How Alcoholics Anonymous is maintaining its program without holding in-person meetings.

Lawrence Wright is primarily a journalist, but he recently wrote a novel about the spread of a novel virus. Infections come and go, he says, but a pandemic reshapes society.

The science-fiction writer has a rare ability to discern the future by observing the present closely. His new novel suggests that “it’s not looking so good.”

War-gaming is an old and low-tech tool, but officers and diplomats still turn to it to model today’s most complex geopolitical situations.

Centrist Democrats regard Sanders’s front-runner status as an existential threat. But can a leftist win over the Party faithful and rally voters in the general election?

A small group of one-per-centers argues that the wealth gap has grown too large, and that it will hurt economic growth. The solution? They want to raise their own taxes.