• Music

    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

     
    By Brittany Allen  July 11, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that made us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  July 3, 2025
    The Craft of Writing

    Clarence A. Haynes on Finding the Soundscape of Your Novel

    By Clarence A. Haynes  July 3, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 27, 2025
    The Hub

    A Beach Boys-inspired reading list: 11 books to fuel a weird, beautiful summer.

    By James Folta  June 17, 2025
    Pop Music

    Life After ABBA: One Day in London With Agnetha Fältskog

    By Jan Gradvall  June 17, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  June 13, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 13, 2025
    Creativity

    From Rock Star to Writer: On the Second Careers of Some of Your Favorite Musicians

    By Leila Sales  June 9, 2025
    Dance

    Dancing with Frank O’Hara: How Lunch Dances Breaks the Library’s Sacred Silence

    Brian Schaefer on Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri’s Immersive Dance-Theater Performance

    By Brian Schaefer  July 7, 2025
    Illness

    Singing For Last Time: What It’s Like to Lose Your Voice—Forever

    By Greta Morgan  June 5, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 30, 2025
    Music Writing

    “The Songs Prove That We Were Here”: Ocean Vuong on Sufjan Stevens

    By Ocean Vuong  May 30, 2025
    Music

    Shitholes, USA: Noel and Liam Gallagher On When Oasis Toured America

    "In the end we fucking smashed the arse out of it."

    By Literary Hub  May 22, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 16, 2025
    Coming of Age

    On Being a Poor Black Punk and Working at the Strand Bookstore

    By Patrick Dougher  May 9, 2025
    Social Movements

    How New York City’s Radical Social Movements Gave Rise to Hip-Hop

    By Dean Van Nguyen  May 6, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners.

    By Brittany Allen  May 5, 2025
    The Hub

    Here are the things that are making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 2, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that got us through this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 25, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s everything that’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  April 18, 2025
    Music history

    On “Eleanor Rigby” as a Product of the Combined Genius of John Lennon and Paul McCartney

    Ian Leslie Considers the Musical Camaraderie and Creative Rivalry That Produced an Iconic Song

    By Ian Leslie  April 17, 2025
    Folk Music

    The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

    By Seán Hewitt  April 15, 2025
    Fascism

    Rewatching The Sound of Music in the Age of Tradwives, Trump, and American Fascism

    By Meredith Hambrock  April 9, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 6, 2025
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