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Matteo Pericoli on drawing Manhattan, before and after 9/11
In 1998, the architect Matteo Pericoli started drawing the Manhattan ...
In 1998, the architect Matteo Pericoli started drawing the Manhattan skyline, building by building, on two thirty-seven-foot scrolls. A section of Pericoli's drawing, showing lower Manhattan from the west, ran in The New Yorker in 1999. For the 10th anniversary of September 11th, Pericoli drew that same section of the skyline again, and you can compare the two drawings in this week's issue of the magazine. Here Pericoli talks about his relationship to New York City, his drawing process, and how the skyline has changed in the past dozen years.
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Jay Rubin on working with Haruki Murakami
In the September 5th issue of the magazine, Haruki Murakami ...
In the September 5th issue of the magazine, Haruki Murakami has a piece of fiction called "Town of Cats." Here Blake Eskin talks with Murakami's longtime translator Jay Rubin about how he became a Murakami fan and translator, the reception in Japan of Murakami's latest novel, "1Q84," and why Rubin doesn't recommend reading literature in translation.
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Sasha Frere-Jones listens to Shabazz Palaces.
This week in the magazine, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about Shabazz ...
This week in the magazine, Sasha Frere-Jones writes about Shabazz Palaces, a hip-hop group led by the rapper Ishmael Butler. Here Frere-Jones talks with Blake Eskin about Butler's early work with Digable Planets and about jazz in early-nineties hip-hop.
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Blake Eskin visits Katharine and E. B. White’s salt-water farm in Brooklin, Maine
Blake Eskin visits the salt-water farm in Brooklin, Maine, that ...
Blake Eskin visits the salt-water farm in Brooklin, Maine, that used to belong to Katharine and E. B. White, until it was sold after his death in 1985. Mary Gallant, who with her husband, Robert, purchased the property from the Whites, points out features of the farm that readers of "Charlotte's Web" would recognize, and talks about how her family has made it their own in the twenty-five years they have owned it.
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Tom Bissell on Jennifer Hale and the “Mass Effect” trilogy
This week in the magazine, Tom Bissell writes about the ...
This week in the magazine, Tom Bissell writes about the voice-over actress Jennifer Hale. Here Bissell talks with Blake Eskin about Hale's performance as Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect video games, and why Bissell prefers playing with a female avatar. Hale joins the conversation to demonstrate some of her voice-over techniques, including the finer points of grunting.
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Stephen Greenblatt on Lucretius and his poem “On the Nature of Things”
This week in the magazine, Stephen Greenblatt explains how Lucretius ...
This week in the magazine, Stephen Greenblatt explains how Lucretius and his poem "On the Nature of Things" shaped the modern world. Here Greenblatt reads a passage from John Dryden's translation of "On the Nature of Things," and talks with Blake Eskin about how the poem disappeared for a thousand years, how it was rediscovered, and the clash between Lucretius' ideas and the Catholic church--and also Greenblatt's Jewish mother.
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Suketu Mehta on illegal immigrants
This week in the magazine, Suketu Mehta writes about an ...
This week in the magazine, Suketu Mehta writes about an African woman who described a rape that never happened in order to gain asylum in the United States. Here Mehta talks with Blake Eskin about why the asylum process encourages embellishment, the ethics of lying to gain asylum, and the multiple identities that illegal immigrants juggle.
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Calvin Trillin on the Freedom Riders.
This week in the magazine, Calvin Trillin remembers reporting on ...
This week in the magazine, Calvin Trillin remembers reporting on the Freedom Rides, a civil-rights campaign aimed at demonstrating the illegal segregation of interstate bus travel. Here Trillin talks with Blake Eskin about starting out as a rookie reporter in the South in 1961, his decision to get on the bus with the Freedom Riders, and how the tense confrontations he witnessed could also be darkly humorous.
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Philip Gourevitch on the Rwandan national cycling team
This week in the magazine, Philip Gourevitch writes about the ...
This week in the magazine, Philip Gourevitch writes about the Rwandan national cycling team. Here Gourevitch talks with Blake Eskin about what the team means for Rwanda and for the individual riders, who were children during the 1994 genocide.
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Ben McGrath and Amy Davidson on Super Sam Fuld
This week in the magazine, Ben McGrath profiles Sam Fuld, ...
This week in the magazine, Ben McGrath profiles Sam Fuld, an outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays. Here Blake Eskin talks with McGrath and Amy Davidson about how Fuld's physique and style of play hearken back to the nineteen-eighties, and about the agony of being a Mets fan.
