Music

Literature & Culture, Race

Janelle Monáe for President

What Afrofuturism can teach us about surviving Trump.

Christopher Lebron

Education & Opportunity

Leaving Behind the Yellow Submarine

Mentorship is how the humanities justify themselves.

Jo Guldi

Literature & Culture

Hashpipe of the Vanities

Overestimating the counterculture of the 1960s

Hal Stucker

Literature & Culture

A Good, Bad, Hard, Easy Life

A new collection of Lead Belly's recordings.

Dave Byrne

Literature & Culture

Dedicated to the Kings of Rhythm and Blues

After years of obscurity, the “5” Royales are finally getting their due.

Colin Fleming

Literature & Culture

I Am Nick Drake Now

Drake was an artist so out of step with his own time that he came to be in lockstep with things not bound by time.

Colin Fleming

Literature & Culture, War & Security

Jim Morrison, Where the Bombs Don’t Fly

Photograph: Wanaku It was 2003, and America had come undone. The day I arrived in Paris

Jackson Bliss

Literature & Culture, Science & Nature

Ground Down to Molasses

The Making of an American Folk Song

Dave Byrne

Literature & Culture, Race

Gangsta Folk

If gangsta rap lyrics are evidence of criminality, what are we to make of gruesome murders depicted

Simon Waxman

Literature & Culture

Loser

Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis.

Alan A. Stone

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Hardscrabble

The novel House of Earth shows Woody Guthrie in a different light, exiled from the Dust Bowl but dreaming of it still.

Megan Pugh

No, I’m Not Talking About Conceptual Poetry

I try to read everything, and I've tried to read everything. I’m not sure that phrase means

Shane McCrae