The New Yorker (Culture and Politics)

Articles

• The Ghosts of Girlhoods Past in “Sound of Falling”

  20 novembre, par Justin Chang — Culture / The Current Cinema, Film, German Films, Foreign Film
  Mascha Schilinski’s dark, century-spanning ensemble drama sees four generations of women take up spectral residence in a German farmhouse.

• The World-Shifting Grooves of Fela Kuti

  20 novembre, par Sarah Larson — Culture / Podcast Dept., Podcasts, Fela Kuti, Nigeria, Political Protests, Repression
  Jad Abumrad’s new podcast, “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man,” shows how one musician created both a genre and a way of challenging those in power.

• A Startup’s Bid to Dim the Sun

  20 novembre, par Elizabeth Kolbert — News / The Lede, Engineering, Climate Change, Global Warming
  The gloomy arguments in favor of solar geoengineering are compelling; so are the even gloomier counter-arguments.

• Daily Cartoon: Thursday, November 20th

  20 novembre, par Tom Reese — Cartoons / Daily Cartoon, Humor
  A drawing that riffs on the latest news and happenings.

• In “Pluribus,” Utopia Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

  20 novembre — Podcast / Critics at Large, “Utopia”, Utopian Communities, Kibbutz, Liberia, Society, Shakers
  Artists and thinkers have long fixated on the notion of an ideal society—but these experiments, in fiction and in life, inevitably fall short. Why are we still drawn in by the possibility of perfection?

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