Rhiannon Corby

Contributor, The New Yorker Radio Hour

Rhiannon Corby appears in the following:

Taylor Mac Makes the Leap to Broadway

Friday, April 26, 2019

The downtown artist makes a Broadway début with a gory, bombastic sequel to the bloodiest play in Shakespeare’s repertoire.

Roomful of Teeth Redefines Vocal Music for the Future

Friday, March 22, 2019

A vocal octet expands the definition of classical music.

The Chef Niki Nakayama Does It Her Way

Friday, March 15, 2019

The chef at one of Los Angeles’s best restaurants on how to build a woman-friendly kitchen.

The New Yorker Presents: the 2019 Brodies

Friday, February 22, 2019

The New Yorker’s film critic introduces the best movies of 2018.

Teju Cole on Blackface

Friday, February 15, 2019

A photograph, Cole reminds us, captures the thinnest sliver of time. Any photograph of a man in blackface—or any racist image—implies that “there’s a lot more where that came from.”

Kelly Slater’s Perfect Wave Brings Surfing to a Crossroads

Friday, December 14, 2018

A lifelong surfer reports on a machine-made wave that could finally make surfing a conventional sport—and potentially transform its spirit.

Bodegas Take Down Their Signs ... Just in Case

Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Local businesses are taking precautions after seeing a strange uptick in 311 complaints that can result in thousands of dollars in fines.

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Helen Rosner on the Culture of Fermentation

Friday, November 30, 2018

The New Yorker’s food correspondent gets a lesson in fermentation from the celebrity chef René Redzepi, and brings David Remnick some microbial snacks.

Kelefa Sanneh on Christian Rock

Friday, November 16, 2018

A New Yorker writer praises his favorite Christian rockers.

Parenthood with Joshua Rothman

Friday, November 02, 2018

A New Yorker editor picks three favorites for a new parent.

Janelle Monáe, from the Future to the Present

Friday, October 26, 2018

The pop star has been writing music since elementary school, but her career didn’t take off until she was fired from a job at Office Depot.

Joan Baez Is Still Protesting

Friday, October 12, 2018

Joan Baez’s music provided a soundtrack to some of the sixties’ defining moments of political upheaval. Half a century later, she hasn’t stopped trying to change the world with her art.

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David Simon’s “The Deuce” Charts the Rise of Pornography

Friday, August 24, 2018

David Simon is sympathetic to the sex workers he depicts in “The Deuce,” but unambiguously critical of porn’s effect on America.

A Cemetery With a View

Friday, August 24, 2018

Yiyun Li’s life has taken her from Beijing to Oakland. She visits the city’s Mountain View Cemetery to absorb the history of her adopted home.    

Nick Lowe Gets Better with Age

Friday, August 24, 2018

Aging and mortality are on the singer-songwriter’s mind, and he wants to make great rock and roll out of them.

Vinson Cunningham Reads Eugene O’Neill

Friday, August 10, 2018

Nobody’s idea of light entertainment, the generally tragic playwright helps a prose writer to loosen up and find his rhythm.

Helen Rosner Makes a Fool for Herself

Friday, August 10, 2018

Strawberry fool isn’t a common dessert in America, but, to one food writer, it’s the pure, distilled essence of summer.  

Vinson Cunningham’s City Hall Wedding

Friday, July 27, 2018

Forget the big white tent and the plate of rubber chicken: the real New York style is a City Hall wedding, complete with metal detectors.  

Tommy Orange and the Urban Native Experience

Friday, July 27, 2018

Tommy Orange had never read a book about what it means to be a Native American living in a big city. He’s changed that with his début novel, “There There”.

Brazil, Bruce Lee, and Black Lives in the Music of Kamasi Washington

Friday, July 13, 2018

The saxophonist Kamasi Washington plays eclectic, high-energy music that has made him a favorite of hip-hop stars and jazz heads alike.