• Music

    Creativity

    Is There an Inherent Connection Between Sadness and Art-Making?

    By Susan Cain  April 7, 2022
    Autobiography

    The Challenges and Pleasures of Helping Quincy Jones Tell His Life Story

    By Patricia Mulcahy  April 4, 2022
    Music

    “Once you’re in the circus, it’s hard to get out.” Martha Wainwright on Growing Up Among Artists

    By Martha Wainwright  March 30, 2022
    Keen On

    The Biblical Story of Leonard Cohen’s October 1973 Resurrection in the Sinai Desert

    By Keen On  March 30, 2022
    The Hub

    Welcome to New York (University), Taylor Swift.

    By Katie Yee  March 29, 2022
    Queer Culture

    “We Straddle the Now and the Ether.” On Black Gay Time

    By Jafari S. Allen  March 24, 2022
    The Hub

    Dolly Parton is going to star in the adaptation of Run, Rose, Run.

    By Katie Yee  March 21, 2022
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Jason Moran on What It Means to Play the Room

    By The Quarantine Tapes  March 17, 2022
    The Hub

    Haruki Murakami to play anti-war songs on his radio show in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 16, 2022
    Music history

    Hanif Abdurraqib Breaks Down History’s Famous Beefs

    By Hanif Abdurraqib  March 8, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Having Trouble With Novel Structure? Look at It Like a Mixtape

    By Mesha Maren  March 4, 2022
    Hip Hop

    On Rap’s Linguistic Twists and Turns

    By Daniel Levin Becker  February 28, 2022
    The Hub

    A previously unpublished Leonard Cohen novel will come out this fall.

    By Walker Caplan  February 24, 2022
    Music

    The Power of Music in Fiction: A Reading List

    By Emme Lund  February 18, 2022
    The Hub

    Turns out the amateur rapper who laundered billions in crypto also dissed Jane Austen.

    By Walker Caplan  February 17, 2022
    Book Dreams

    Brendan Slocumb on Racism in the Classical Music World

    By Book Dreams  February 17, 2022
    Dance

    The Creation of Yourself: On the Flow and Fugue of Dance

    By Olivia Campbell  February 17, 2022
    Keen On

    Garrett Hongo on His Audio Obsession

    By Keen On  February 16, 2022
    Hobbies

    In Search of the Perfect Sound: Confessions of an Accidental Audiophile

    By Garrett Hongo  February 15, 2022
    The Hub

    Preview a new adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion soundtracked by Cardi B and Dua Lipa.

    By Walker Caplan  February 10, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Brendan Slocumb on Mentorship, Antiquities Theft, and Being the Only Black Violin Player Around

    By Jane Ciabattari  February 9, 2022
    Blues

    On Clarence Major’s Enduring Portrait of the Blues, Dirty Bird Blues

    By Yusef Komunyakaa  February 9, 2022
    Big Table

    Warren Ellis on Mementos of the Music World

    By Big Table  February 7, 2022
    Music history

    Why Whitney Houston’s Rendition of the National Anthem Still Matters

    By Gerrick Kennedy  February 2, 2022
    News and Culture

    God of Teenage Appetites: On the Undeniable Allure of Meat Loaf

    By Summer Brennan  January 24, 2022
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