Burkhard Bilger has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2001. His new book, “Fatherland,” was published in 2023.
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Musical Events
Handel’s “Messiah,” on Skid Row
A visionary Los Angeles violinist makes music with the homeless.
By Alex Ross
Musical Events
A Water Tank Turned Music Venue
In Colorado, a uniquely resonant performance space.
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Fiction
“Pulse”
He felt a pure, infantile fear. The smell of pencils. The cold metal smell of the ladder. There was a static crackle above him. And it froze his blood.
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Annals of Gastronomy
The English Apple Is Disappearing
As the country loses its local cultivars, an orchard owner and a group of biologists are working to record and map every variety of apple tree they can find in the West of England.
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