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Henry Threadgill’s Life in Music

Nate Wooley

July 25, 2023

A new jazz memoir subverts a familiar genre.

The Good Enough Momfluencer

Sophie Lewis

July 18, 2023

Unpacking the momfluencer’s appeal.

The Changeling

Robert Rubsam

July 13, 2023

The musician PJ Harvey has made a career of reinvention.

Translating the Language of the Border

Gaby Del Valle

July 12, 2023

A memoir of working with—and against—the U.S. deportation machine.

The Dark Side of the Jazz Age

Jessica Fletcher

July 10, 2023

On Ursula Parrott’s life and work.

Comey As You Are

Kenneth Dillon

June 22, 2023

James Comey’s will to power has nowhere to flourish but in his mind.

Fear and Loathing on Melrose Place

Will Harrison

June 21, 2023

In Jack Skelley’s LA, everything—even basic reality—is warped or subject to question.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1952–2023 

Jen Monroe

June 20, 2023

Art is long, life is short.

Errant Telenovelas

Byron Davies

June 15, 2023

Telenovelas are the Mexican arbiters of life and death.

Brains on Drugs

John Semley

June 14, 2023

How consuming drugs to expand one’s consciousness went from an intellectual pastime to an emblem of social decay.

Archival Frictions

Sadie Graham

June 13, 2023

Painting a fuller picture of lesbian experience.

Paranoid Posting

Sophia Goodfriend

June 08, 2023

How the army benefits from the influencer economy.