Wainwright comes from a family of musicians: his mother was the late Kate McGarrigle, his father is Loudon Wainwright III, and his sister is Martha Wainwright, who, in addition to her own solo career, frequently appears on his albums. His latest and tenth studio album, Unfollow the Rules, builds upon the complex vocalization and lush arrangements that have defined his catalog, but with a new wisdom and depth that speak to his forty-seven years on Earth. From the Tin Pan Alley inflections of his early work, to a live recreation of Judy Garland’s 1961 concert at Carnegie Hall, to the two operas he has composed, Wainwright has proven to possess an eclectic breadth of skills quite unlike anyone else’s. Over the course of his nearly three-decade career, Rufus Wainwright has evolved into one of the most sophisticated songwriters of his generation, as well as a singularly versatile performer. Some Thoughts on Diaspora and Hybridity: An Unpublished Slide Lecture (1994) Munuera’s The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19 Vivian Vázquez Irizarry and Gretchen Hildebran’s Decade of FireĪndrés Jaque and Ivan L.