Fruits and Vegetables
...that it is hard to imagine a world worth living in without them. Humor, music, poetry, recycling, and failed recreational drug use all owe quite a good deal to the...
In Motion
An interview with director, writer, and activist Astra Taylor about her film What is Democracy?
Ramadan Diaries: Looking Backward, Looking Inward
...who was once involved in arranging a piece of mine to music. In the sturdy pews my body fell into a state of such severe pain that I doubled over....
The Stoop and the Street
...for this conversation,” Lacy said. She paused. “I think that’d be Washington.” *** An hour and a half after we began talking on the stoop, the sound of music seeping...
Fringe Feminists
...Creem Magazine, February 1976: Patti's heroes may be gone, but she is both with us and for us, so strongly that her music is something, finally, to rally around....
Blind Ambition
...assisted lost strangers and contrived clever board games to play with the town's other blind residents. Music enchanted him. He attended concerts and joined music societies. Often ringing through the...
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know
Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop
...novelty,” then they aren’t people who could threaten her artistic credibility; they are people who overtly don’t give a damn about music. Haters no longer police the essence of a...
Our Fellow Travelers
...entire screen with all the gestures and grace of a sweaty black club. At times, especially during the genius pajama-party scene, when that paleo-twerk classic of D.C. go-go music, “Da...
Things to Come
...music, Western musicians like P-Funk and Sun-Ra. So there’s that, it’s a Western form of writing, and science fiction has to come to Africa in that regard. But I’ve always...
If You Are Lucky Enough To Be In LA...
...and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. But more recently, defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits...
Sunday Reading
...meet my fellow protesters, I hear people emerge from their balconies and the music starts. If you do not live here, I wish I could properly convey to you what...
“What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”
...for her answer. “Libby?” he called again. By that time he realized he could not even hear the sound of his own voice above the music coming from the radio....
Red Holidays of Genius
...everyday habits. All of this discombobulating, disordering, and unmooring they believed advanced a risorgimento, a wholesale remaking of Italian thought and culture. "Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and...
A Dark City
...parks and the architecture, of the astounding culture and the museums. Then he adds, I am searching the complicated web of the Moscow metro lines to remember more things....
Skin Feeling
...beautiful story I know about Bird was told by August Blume: “There was this musician’s girl who had a bad case for Bird’s music. She left her fiancé to follow...