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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, December 19th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

I wanted to do something different for this podcast,

which is the final political scene of 2019.

Our guest, Peter Sheldall, is not a political writer or a politician.

He's been the New Yorker's art critics since 1998, bringing our readers relief from

relentlessly grim headlines with his gorgeous transporting essays about painters, sculptors, photographers,

performance artists.

Last week, when the country was caught up in the impending impeachment of the president

and reading about wars and natural disasters around the world, Peter published a piece

in the magazine about his own existential crisis called The Art of Dying.

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