Light, handy and accurate, the M1 carbine still lacked stopping power at ranges beyond 100 yards. U.S. Marine on Iwo Jima, 1945. I've been researching and writing about the M1 carbine for some ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. Outside of Bon Iver, Vernon remains a wildly in-demand collaborator. He has a track ...

Jay West/WireImage; Kevin Mazur/Getty Bon Iver's Justin Vernon believes he and Taylor Swift would have been close if they knew each other when they were younger. In an interview with The New ...

Back in 2007, Bon Iver's debut album, "For Emma, Forever Ago," was just about the least likely breakthrough album imaginable: ...

Johnson, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, a scholar on race and democracy, and a retired naval officer. His book, "If We Are Brave", was published in October. His research and ...

Start with Sable, the new record by his band Bon Iver, their first new release in five years. Other than Beyoncé’s gap from Lemonade to Renaissance, how many major acts take that long between ...

In a season of unrest, it’s equal parts comforting and disconcerting to have new Bon Iver music out. Vernon’s personal heartbreak, translated into something as moving and universal as SABLE ...

Justin Vernon is a touring veteran with Bon Iver, but it’s not a universally positive experience. He spoke about this in a new interview with The New Yorker, telling the story of a time he cried ...

Bon Iver is back — although the group hasn't really been away. The Wisconsin-born indie-rock act, led by Justin Vernon, has been collaborating with a wide range of artists in recent years ...

More than five years have passed since Bon Iver's last album, “i, i” was released, so it's fitting that the opening of this new indie folk EP, “SABLE,” arrives like a siren, warning the ...

Back in 2007, Bon Iver’s debut album, “For Emma, Forever Ago,” was just about the least likely breakthrough album imaginable: Written in a remote cabin during a Wisconsin winter, in self ...