John Seabrook
The New Yorker
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by John:
The Women of Wet Leg
How Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, two friends from the Isle of Wight, got a music career and five Grammy nominations by fixating on an old chaise longue. → Read More
Third Period, a Thousand Feet Over Brooklyn
Gerard Renodo and his architecture-crazy high-school classmates finagled a private tour of the Brooklyn Tower, the borough’s first supertall skyscraper, where they pondered Batman vibes and gentrification and searched for a souvenir to take home. → Read More
Old Is New Dept News, Opinion, and Analysis—
A collection of articles about Old Is New Dept from The New Yorker, including news, in-depth reporting, commentary, and analysis. → Read More
The Band, Disbanded
Discussing the documentary “Once Were Brothers,” Robbie Robertson talks about writing the “movie songs” that, along with cocaine, money squabbles, Martin Scorsese, and Big Pink, made the Band what it is. → Read More
Maggie Rogers Wants to Keep It Real
John Seabrook on the folk-pop star whose N.Y.U.-homework demo blew Pharrell Williams away, and who is now selling out Radio City. → Read More
The Age of Robot Farmers
Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it? → Read More
Why Philly Loves the Eagles’ Big Nick Foles, the N.F.L.’s Best Backup
Foles is a real-life Rocky—a disrespected has-been who quit the game, only to come back to win it all at the 2018 Super Bowl, and who is now defying the nonbelievers again. → Read More
Richard Thompson Rides Out a Storm on the Staten Island Ferry
After three decades in Los Angeles, the British folk-rock star arrives on the East Coast. → Read More
Operation Ceasefire and the Unlikely Advent of Precision Policing
Professor David Kennedy’s radical approach to gang violence sounded like academic claptrap, but it worked, and it has led to a paradigm shift in urban law enforcement. → Read More
Stephin Merritt Unpacks His Peripatetic Past
The Magnetic Fields songwriter preps the props for the theatrical production of his fifty-song memoir. → Read More
Steven Van Zandt’s New Rock-and-Roll High School
In his TeachRock program, Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” video becomes a text about the slave trade. → Read More
Can One of the Ortiz Brothers Win the Kentucky Derby?
Ahead of the Kentucky Derby, John Seabrook writes about the jockeys and brothers Jose and Irad Ortiz, and their chances to win the race. → Read More
Tools Of The Trade News, Opinion, and Analysis—
A collection of articles about Tools Of The Trade from The New Yorker, including news, in-depth reporting, commentary, and analysis. → Read More
Black Ice, Near-Death, and Transcendence on I-91
A car trip north ends in a terrifying slide off the highway. → Read More
How Many Guitars Can Steve Miller Fit in His Closet?
The space cowboy on finding a home for his four hundred and fifty guitars. → Read More
The Eagles Parade Was Beautiful, Melancholy, Profane, and Utterly Philly
Celebrating the Eagles as Super Bowl champs was not, for me at least, uncomplicated. → Read More
Richard Hell’s Obsessive Fan
If a writer is a reader moved to emulation, then Kyle Void, Richard Hell observed, “is a writer moved to apotheosis.” → Read More
Diplo’s Bona-fide Hustle
The d.j., E.D.M. producer, and Major Lazer front man, who helped pave the way for the Chainsmokers and Martin Garrix, visits a Cuban joint in Queens. → Read More
John Seabrook
John Seabrook has been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1989 and became a staff writer in 1993. Seabrook explores the intersection between creativity and commerce in the fields of technology, design, and music. Seabrook is the author of “Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing—The Marketing of Culture,” which was published in 2000; “Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace,” which was published… → Read More
Puerto Rico’s Ortiz Brothers Light Up Horse Racing
The two young jockeys are dominating the racetrack. What makes them so good? → Read More