Annie Dillard’s Subject Was the Whole World
Robert Baird remembers the writer Annie Dillard, who died last week, at eighty-one.
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admin Bob Mackie Was Serious About Sequins
Rachel Syme remembers Bob Mackie, the fashion designer best known for creating costumes and stage ensembles for Cher, Carol Burnett,…
Dolly Parton for the People
Kathryn Schulz remembers the late Dolly Parton, who died at the age of eighty.
On Jackie the Eagle and the Nature of the Soul
Alex Ross on Jackie, an eagle whose life in a nest near Big Bear Lake, in the San Bernardino Mountains,…
Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories
Both as a young busker and as a famous singer-songwriter, Glen Hansard understood how to make people stop and listen…
Postscript: Mark Singer
In a 1997 Profile for the magazine, he looked for Donald Trump’s soul. Where it should have been he found—nothing,…
David Hockney’s Hidden Depths
Rebecca Mead on the death of the painter, who will be remembered for his masterful explorations of color and light,…
Postscript: Donald Newhouse
David Remnick remembers the newspaper visionary and owner of Condé Nast, who understood the value of editorial independence.
The Revolutionary Force of Sonny Rollins
The legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins has died, at ninety-five. Richard Brody writes that his name became synonymous with the…