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John Legend Bet on Himself

“I’m not dressed for public consumption,” John Legend apologized, before turning on his Zoom camera. He was swathed in a floral-on-black robe, sitting outside of what looked like a tasteful villa: tiled roofs, cream-colored walls coated in ivy. Legend was…

How Mathematics Changed Me

I have written about mathematics for The New Yorker and, lately, also in my book “A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age,” and I thought that I had said everything I had to…

See the Lineup for the 2022 New Yorker Festival

For the twenty-third year in a row, New Yorker readers, writers, and editors will gather with some of the world’s most influential minds for The New Yorker Festival, taking place October 7th through 9th in New York City. The three-day…