Inside the Music
An insightful critic and a skilled jazz pianist in his own right, David Yaffe had the rare ability to parse both the mechanics and the mysteries of a song
The Oracle of Silicon Valley
A posthumous essay collection makes clear that the French philosopher René Girard foresaw 21st-century culture—and tried to warn us
Take Me to Dimes Square
A young playwright reveals how the pandemic led him to find himself—and his latest play—in the Chinatown stomping ground of New York’s downtown set
