New York magazine - August 6, 2018
New York magazine - August 6, 2018
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In this issue
In the Aug 6–19 Issue: 2008: The Forever Crash—a seismic reading of the financial earthquake of 2008 and its aftershocks. Plus: How to write a song in 2018, and an encounter with John David Washington.
Tomorrow: David Wallace-Wells
How Is the End of the World Already Old News?Another ho-hum heat wave, as the Earth burns.
6 mins
John David Washington
Pretending to be tourists with the BlacKkKlansman star.
6 mins
10 Years After The Crash, We Are Still Living In The World It Brutally Remade
Sometimes you don’t know how deep the hole is until you try to fill it. In 2009, staring down what looked to anyone with a calculator like the biggest financial crisis since 1929, the federal government poured $830 billion into the economy—a spending stimulus bigger, by some measures, than the entire New Deal—and the country barely noticed. It registered the crisis, though. The generation that came of age in the Great Depression was indelibly shaped by that experience of deprivation, even though what followed was what Henry Luce famously called, in 1941, “the American Century.” He meant the 20th, and, to judge from our present politics, at least—“Make America Great Again” on one side of the aisle; on the other, the suspicion that the president is a political suicide bomber, destroying the pillars of government—he probably wouldn’t have made the same declaration about the 21st. A decade now after the beginning of what has come to be called the Great Recession, and almost as long since economic growth began to tick upward and unemployment downward, the cultural and psychological imprint left by the financial crisis looks as profound as the ones left by the calamity that struck our grandparents. All the more when you look beyond the narrow economic data: at a new radical politics on both left and right; at a strident, ideological pop culture obsessed with various apocalypses; at an internet powered by envy, strife, and endless entrepreneurial hustle; at opiates and suicides and low birthrates; and at the resentment, racial and gendered and otherwise, by those who felt especially left behind. Over the following pages, we cast a look back, and tried to take a seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.
10+ mins
The Financial Crisis Broke The Modern World, And We Are Still Living In The Ruins
SOMETIMES YOU DON’T KNOW how deep the hole is until you try to fill it. In 2009, staring down what looked to anyone with a calculator like the biggest financial crisis since 1929, the federal government poured $830 billion into the economy—a spending stimulus bigger, by some measures, than the entire New Deal—and the country barely noticed.
10+ mins
Jeremy Corbyn, 1970s Revanchist, Is Suddenly The Face Of The New New Left
THE POLITICS OF Britain and the U.S. can have a strange, synchronized rhythm to them.
10+ mins
The Art Of The Slurp
The Chinese-food scene has never been better, and the elegant Hunan Slurp in the East Village is the latest reason why.
4 mins
Booze Ceremony
The city’s new “Japanese bars” are a little Tokyo, a little New York, and a tribute to Japan’s elevation of an American art form.
4 mins
For Decades, Country Singers Outsourced Their Songwriting To Professionals. Did Taylor Swift Murder Music Row?
COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAMER Harlan Howard once described country songwriting as “three chords and the truth.”
3 mins
A Mini Master Class With Billy Joel
THOUGH BILLY JOEL stopped writing songs long ago, he’s remained devoted to the art of songwriting. Going back to the mid1990s, Joel has regularly conducted master classes at colleges across the country, during which he takes questions, performs, and shares advice about his craft—like he’s done here. Speaking from his home in Long Island, the man responsible for 33 Top 40 singles offered the following insights.
2 mins
Deep Undercover
A detective gets an unlikely assignment in BlacKkKlansman.
6 mins
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Category: Lifestyle
Language: English
Frequency: Fortnightly
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