• Music

    Creativity

    Inspiration Plus Experimentation: On the Essential Elements of Artistic Creation

    Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards Consider the Creative Process Behind Music Composition

     
    By Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards  January 22, 2024
    Music as Literature

    Marlon James on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Authenticity as Pose, and Not Reading His Book Reviews

    By Griffin Ondaatje  January 4, 2024
    Pop Music

    Growing Up in Taylor Swift’s America

    By Kelly Marie Coyne  December 14, 2023
    Cultural History

    What’s Old is New Again (and Again): On the Cyclical Nature of Nostalgia

    By Tobias Becker  December 13, 2023
    Music history

    Boys Do Cry: How The Cure Helped Mainstream Male Emotion

    By Simon Price  December 12, 2023
    Performance Art

    Plain-Spoken Performance Art: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

    By Brooke Wentz  December 8, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Music

    “The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

    By Dylan Jones  December 5, 2023
    In Memoriam

    RIP Shane MacGowan: 7 Pogues Songs That Would Make Great Short Stories

    By Jonny Diamond  December 1, 2023
    Music history

    How Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker Made Music History Together

    By Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill  November 30, 2023
    Deafness

    All The Songs We Cannot Hear: On the Challenges of a Life Without Sound

    Matt Hay Considers the Importance of Music for the Hearing Impaired

    By Matt Hay  January 12, 2024
    What to Watch

    Maestro Slips into Easy Conversation with A Star is Born

    By Frank Falisi  November 22, 2023
    Design

    The Pyschedelic Life and Art of David Edward Byrd

    By Robert von Goeben  November 20, 2023
    The Hub

    Kurt Vonnegut thought Bob Dylan was “the worst poet alive.”

    By Emily Temple  November 9, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

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

    From Jeremy Eichler's Baillie Gifford Prize Shortlisted Time's Echo

    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

    "The next thing that we knew 'Please Mr. Postman' was number one on the Billboard chart"

    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

    John Szwed on Harry Everett Smith and the Making of The Anthology of American Folk Music

    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
    Excerpt

    Who Doesn’t Like Music? Nabokov, For Starters

    By Michel Faber  November 29, 2023
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