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Fernanda Eberstadt | Granta | 24th April 2025 Memoir from a teenage worker at The Factory. In the late 1970s, Andy Warhol's reputation was at a low ebb but the atmosphere was one of "slapstick merriment". Her job was part receptionist — fetching sandwiches, answering phones — and part manager of Warhol's emotions. "What pierces my heart is the morning Andy stood by my desk, blushing, face contorted, too angry and hurt to speak" (4,600 words)
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Evan Goldfine | A Year Of Bach | 21st April 2025 Thoughts upon concluding a project that involved listening to all of J.S. Bach's musical work. It is the manifesto of a newly converted completist: if you haven't consumed all of your favourite artist's output, you have "tasted only a morsel of the world’s biggest cake". Bach was astonishingly consistent in style and quality throughout his life. Perhaps his music is a "sideways proof of God’s existence" (1,400 words)
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