Sarah Larson

New York

Staff Writer at The New Yorker

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Articles

Three Actually Fun Podcasts About Money

2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

Grab your headphones. Today’s newsletter is a list of fun podcasts about the matter on everyone’s mind: money. Plus:• Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over• The eyeglasses with built-in, real-time speech transcription• “Drop Dead City” spotlights a lost era of liberal governmentThe recent churn of tariffs, trade wars, and high-stakes financial bullying has forced many of us to think about economics more than usual—and has, perhaps, revealed how little we understand about any of it.
Billy Idol: Still in Leather, Still Hot in the City

3 weeks ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

In 1981, Billy Idol moved from London, where he’d had some success with his punk band Generation X, to Manhattan. He found a one-room West Village apartment, at One Sheridan Square, where his friend Ace lived. Recently, Idol, on the cusp of a big year—new album (“Dream Into It”), tour with Joan Jett (“It’s a Nice Day to . . . Tour Again!”), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination, and documentary (“Billy Idol Should Be Dead”)—visited his old building.
David Byrne Takes the Stairs

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

At the Pace gallery in Chelsea in early April, the artist and musician David Byrne was in a stairwell, lying on the floor and drawing on the wall with a black acrylic marker. Byrne, who is seventy-two, wore a buttoned-up navy polo shirt, a white wristwatch, and railroad-striped overalls.
Fighting Elon Musk, One Tesla Dealership at a Time

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

On Saturday, as Elon Musk was making headlines for his continued efforts at DOGE and dodging a lawsuit for offering money to Wisconsin voters ahead of the state’s Supreme Court race, thousands of people were outside Tesla dealerships around the world protesting him.
Kevin McDonald, Superstar!

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

The other day, Kevin McDonald, the curly-haired actor-comedian best known as one of the Kids in the Hall, the beloved Canadian comedy troupe, invited a few people to a rehearsal in a tiny hotel room in lower Manhattan. One guest’s knock had a rhythm similar to “shave and a haircut.” McDonald knocked back “two bits,” then opened the door. “I had to do the callback,” he said, looking pleased.
A British Detective Comedy About a Reclusive Puzzle-Maker

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

There’s a gamelike element to being a detective—the seeking of hidden information, the identification of patterns, the piecing together of clues, the “Eureka!” of discovery. Several legendary fictional detectives have been expert game players and puzzle solvers. Inspector Morse had a passion for crosswords; Lord Peter Wimsey decoded ciphers. Hercule Poirot, that shrewd know-it-all, solved a chess-related murder by scrutinizing a Ruy Lopez opening and the unconventional use of a white bishop.
A British Detective Comedy About a Reclusive Puzzle-Maker

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Sarah Larson

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The Show That Finds the Intrigue Lurking in the Everyday

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

Society has changed in monumental ways, the British historian Ruth Goodman observes, since the days “when we used scouring sand and wood ash to do the washing up”—and some of that change was “a direct result of new dishwashing techniques.” Her podcast “The Curious History of Your Home,” produced by the history-focussed Noiser network, examines the seemingly humdrum stuff of domestic life with the aim of uncovering its evolution and significance; “Dish Washing” explores the world-historical...
Judy Collins Turn, Turn, Turns to Poetry

2 months ago | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

In March, Judy Collins, the ethereal, blue-eyed folksinging legend, will celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday with a concert at Town Hall and the release of a book. “I tell people that I’m eighty-five and it’s the new twenty-seven,” Collins said on a recent morning. Her hair is now short and white, her vibe eternally beatific.
The Met’s New Aida Visits the Other Met

Jan 27, 2025 | newyorker.com | Sarah Larson

On a recent snowy afternoon, the soprano Angel Blue travelled from the Metropolitan Opera House to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to visit its Egyptian collection. Blue, who is forty, is statuesque and warmly serene, and she looked elegant in an overcoat, a sparkly sweater, and boots. “I just got out of rehearsal,” she told a companion, in an elevator. “I tried to take off some makeup, but—” An elderly museumgoer wheeled around. “Are you in a show?” she asked.