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POP MUSIC: Into the Woods, by Sasha Frere-Jones
The stack of voices on Bon Iver’s “Flume” is overwhelming—a combination of the secular and the religious in one cloudy mass—and is as exalted as any sound in American popular music today…
VIDEO: BON IVER
FRERE-JONES ON THE BUDDHA MACHINE

YEAR IN REVIEW

Best of 2008

New Yorker critics look back on a year of culture.

A CRITIC AT LARGE

Beware of Pity

by Adam Kirsch
Hannah Arendt and the power of the impersonal.

THE CURRENT CINEMA

Survivors

by David Denby
“Defiance” and “The Secret of the Grain.”
THE FILM FILE
PHOTOGRAPH: YOLA MONAKHOV
GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN
A selective guide to cultural events in and around New York City.
Browse Listings: THE THEATRE | ART | NIGHT LIFE | DANCE

CLASSICAL MUSIC | MOVIES | READINGS AND TALKS

ABOVE AND BEYOND | ON THE HORIZON

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

No-Goodniks

by David Denby
“Good,” at Village East Cinemas.

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Word Power

by Hilton Als
Paul Celan, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

DVD NOTES

From Big Screen to Small

by Richard Brody
Chinese movies, Greta Gerwig, David Fincher, and more.
 
01 06, 2009
Staff photographers Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke discuss their work.
BLOGS
Steve Coll explains why Leon Panetta is ill equipped to run the C.I.A.
James Surowiecki discusses the unforeseen liquidity crisis.
Hendrik Hertzberg is excited about a surprising candidate for Congress.
Sasha Frere-Jones shares a video of his interview with Bon Iver.
George Packer equates Sean Penn’s journalism with fake populism.
The Book Bench: Slouching toward Bethlehem, it’s not over until the first lady signs.
Goings On: Streaming movies at home, Ron Asheton, Larry Bird likes Eminem.
The Cartoon Lounge: Too early for Nostradamus, the first predictification of 2009.
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AUDIO
Face Time: Staff photographers Martin Schoeller and Steve Pyke discuss their work.
Joy Revision: Ariel Levy discusses the relevance of “The Joy of Sex.”
All in the Family: Zadie Smith discusses comedy and family.
Home for the Holidays: Roddy Doyle reads Maeve Brennan’s “Christmas Eve.”
The Transition: Dorothy Wickenden hosts a discussion on Rod Blagojevich’s corruption scandal.
MORE PODCASTS
VIDEO
Justin Vernon Express: An interview with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.
Hot Seats: How an illegally logged tree becomes a toilet seat at Wal-Mart.
Not a Game: Scenarios from Virtual Iraq, with commentary by Sue Halpern.
Trapped: The ordeal of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for forty-one hours.
Stories from the Near Future: Video from the 2008 New Yorker Conference.
SLIDE SHOWS
Deserted: A portfolio of images from Sudanese refugee camps in Chad.
Sexual Evolution: A portfolio of images from “The Joy of Sex” and “Our Bodies, Ourselves.”
The Face of Death: Paintings and drawings from the Marlene Dumas retrospective at MOMA.
Secrets of the Bomb: Images and documents that tell the story behind the first atomic bomb.

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