• Music

    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
    Record Stores

    Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

    By Jolene McIlwain  May 18, 2023
    The Hub

    The ghost of Edgar Allan Poe has taken over Eurovision.

    By Eliza Smith  May 12, 2023
    Music history

    How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

    By Jonny Steinberg  May 11, 2023
    Songwriting

    Of Songs and Stories: What Bruce Springsteen Learned From Flannery O’Connor

    By Warren Zanes  May 10, 2023
    The Hub

    Neil Gaiman has an album coming out!

    By Jonny Diamond  April 27, 2023
    Mothers

    Lucinda Williams Recalls the Turbulence of Growing Up With a Sick Mother

    By Lucinda Williams  April 26, 2023
    Emergence Magazine

    Sam Lee on the Musical Kinship Between Folk Music and Birdsong

    By Emergence Magazine  April 24, 2023
    Autofiction

    Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu on Sex as Escape, Being a Jerk, and “Alcohol-fueled Insanity”

    By Juan Velasquez  April 20, 2023
    So Many Damn Books

    Ling Ling Huang on the Intersection of Classical Music and Writing

    By So Many Damn Books  April 18, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Pattie Boyd Talks Art, Fashion, and Beatlemania

    By The Literary Life  April 14, 2023
    The Hub

    What are the greatest songs about history? Simon Sebag Montefiore has some ideas.

    By Simon Sebag Montefiore  April 10, 2023
    The Writing Life

    Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

    By Ling Ling Huang  April 10, 2023
    Lit Century

    On Songs for Drella and the Paradox of Andy Warhol’s Art

    By Lit Century   April 4, 2023
    Celebrity

    Elissa Sloan and Jennifer Banash on Celebrity, Myth, and Fiction

    By Literary Hub  March 21, 2023
    Christianity

    The Gift of Holy Tongues: On Being the Bass Player for Evangelism

    By Matthew McNaught  March 15, 2023
    Country Music

    When Johnny Cash Kissed Me: How the Country Star Changed My Life

    By Louisa Young  March 10, 2023
    Craft

    How a Middle School Piano Lesson Helped Me Write My Book

    By Ilyon Woo  March 6, 2023
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