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Paul Simon’s Hot Streak | The New Yorker

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“Stranger to Stranger,” Simon’s thirteenth solo album, released in 2016, continued one of the greatest comebacks in pop history.

Save this story Save this story Simon, at seventy-four, is in the midst of a late-career renaissance. On his new album, he sings, “I’m never gonna stop.” Illustration by Stanley Chow “Paul Simon tries really hard with the word ‘motherfucker.’ But he has trouble with it.” This was the verdict of the critic Rob Sheffield, writing in the Village Voice in 1997. It was a tricky time for anyone who loved Paul Simon, and surely not an easy time for Simon himself. He had just released an album of songs from “The Capeman,” his ill-fated Broadway musical, which had become about as notorious as the teen-

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