The New Yorker staff writer and Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the deep roots-and untapped possibilities-of our newfound, all-consuming drive to reduce

This book is about silence and power and how they interact. It argues that only by studying how silence works—how it is implicated in the construction of mean

Four strangers wake up alone in a room. A masked man is responsible for their suspenseful predicament, and offers them a compromise: If they provide one answer

John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creat