• Music

    Baillie Gifford Prize

    On Art, Music and the Humanist Spirit in the Face of Nazi Atrocities

    By Jeremy Eichler  November 6, 2023
    Music history

    The Beatles Adventures in the Red-Light District: On George Harrison’s First Time

    By Philip Norman  October 26, 2023
    Bob Dylan

    How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music

    By Lucy Sante  October 24, 2023
    On Memoir

    Why It Matters How We Tell the Story of Sinead O’Connor

    By Allyson McCabe  October 23, 2023
    In Conversation

    Black Girl Group Magic: The Marvelettes on How They Became Motown Music Legends

    By Literary Hub  October 9, 2023
    In Conversation

    In Praise of Mariah Carey

    By Literary Hub  October 6, 2023
    Music

    On the Generative Nostalgia of Old Manuscripts

    By Nick Ripatrazone  September 13, 2023
    Music

    10 Books for Taylor Swift’s 10 Eras

    By Samantha Paige Rosen  August 30, 2023
    Folk Music

    How the Folkloric Sounds of Rural America Reached the Mainstream

    By John Szwed  August 23, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Ancestral Structures on the Trailing Edge

    By Emergence Magazine  August 21, 2023
    What to Watch

    We’re Not Promising Anymore: Lizzy Goodman on the Fleeting Amateur Spirit of Meet Me in the Bathroom

    By Gyasi Hall  August 18, 2023
    Rock N Roll

    “Relentless F*cking Noise”: Lou Reed on Making an Unlistenable Album

    By Allan Jones  August 11, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    When the Earth Started to Sing

    By Emergence Magazine  August 7, 2023
    Rock N Roll

    It Conveyed Them: When The Beatles Recorded “Twist and Shout”

    By David Hepworth  August 2, 2023
    Read Smart

    Craig Brown on Bringing Humor to Writing About The Beatles

    By Read Smart  July 18, 2023
    Cities

    How the 9/11 Attacks Sparked a Never-Ending Wave of Gentrification

    By Jesse Rifkin  July 13, 2023
    Rock and Roll

    More Than Just A Pretty Face: On the Multifaceted Marianne Faithfull

    By Elizabeth Winder  July 13, 2023
    Revolution

    On the Hip-Hop That Powers Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution

    By Yasmine El Rashidi  July 12, 2023
    The Hub

    Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’s first class book collection is going up for auction this fall.

    By Emily Temple  July 10, 2023
    New in Nonfiction

    10 Nonfiction Books to Read This July

    By Jonny Diamond  June 30, 2023
    Keen On

    Aisha Harris Talks Judy Garland, Michael Jackson, the Spice Girls, and Stevie Wonder

    By Keen On  June 30, 2023
    Behind the novel

    How Taylor Swift Saved My Writing

    By Ethan Joella  June 21, 2023
    Music Writing

    What 300 Hours of Interviewing Musicians Taught Chris Payne

    By Chris Payne  June 15, 2023
    Rock and Roll

    Reading at Full Volume: Seven Books That Feature Rock Music

    By Matthew Norman  June 7, 2023
    The Hub

    WATCH: Dua Lipa visits a women’s prison reading group.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 2, 2023
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