Sarah Larson

6 days ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

This month, the beloved British pop band Pulp will release “More,” its first new album in twenty-four years. Jarvis Cocker, the band’s founder, lyricist, and front man, has engaged in innumerable interesting projects in the meantime—an album with his band Jarv Is, collaborations with Wes Anderson and Chilly Gonzales, a BBC radio program, an excellent memoir, “Good Pop Bad Pop”—but the new Pulp record feels like a significant return, triumphant and humble at once.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Sarah Larson

Jarvis Cocker Is Out of the RainThe Pulp singer on conquering his fear of nature, the pleasures and perils of art and aging, and the band’s first new album in twenty-four years. This month, the beloved British pop band Pulp will release “More,” its first new album in twenty-four years. Jarvis Cocker, the band’s founder, lyricist, …

1 week ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

The searing, funny “John Proctor Is the Villain,” which has been nominated for seven Tonys, including Best Play, centers on five boisterously articulate teen girls reading “The Crucible” in an honors English class in rural Georgia; a key moment features cathartic dancing to “Green Light,” by Lorde.

2 weeks ago | rcreader.com | Sarah Larson |Michael Helke

NORTH LIBERTY, IOWA (May 21, 2025) — May is National Nurses Month, and it’s a chance to celebrate the nurses in an array of jobs. At Iowa Donor Network, nurses on the team help facilitate lifesaving organ transplants. They use their clinical background to make quick, heavily-informed decisions on donor potential and transplant matches. Fernanda (Fern) Marrufo worked in a Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit (ICU) neuro trauma in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a Des Moines Hospital.

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

The Boston Globe’s investigative Spotlight team has been reporting on wrongdoing for decades—before and after its stunning exposure, in 2003, of the vast Catholic Church child-sexual-abuse crisis, dramatized in Tom McCarthy’s movie “Spotlight,” in 2015. Its latest exposé is “Spotlight: Snitch City,” a print and podcast series about how police have abused the confidential-informant system in the historic port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts.