For Robyn Hitchcock, the psychedelic call of 1967 inspired a lifetime of music
…seem to sense how sadness is the shadow of beauty. Unlike Dylan, they also sense the holiness of all living matter. These people must be very stoned. This is not…
Ace Atkins creates an unforgettable detective and an intimate portrait of Memphis in Don’t Let the Devil Ride
…its details? Ace Atkins: When you live in north Mississippi, Memphis is the unofficial capital and where you spend a ton of time. I’ve been writing about Memphis since my…
Novelist Jill Ciment reconsiders her own story
…her 1996 memoir, Half a Life. In a new book, Consent, Ciment reconsiders their story in the light of 21st-century sexual mores and her own altered perspective. Photo: Arnold Mesches…
Andre Dubus III’s essays are probing and deeply personal in the collection Ghost Dogs
…— frightening accidents that could have been fatal. He tells also of the time when, unable to otherwise expel a bird that’s entered his tiny New York apartment, he shot…
Crusading newspaper editor Carl Magee comes alive in compelling biography Citizen Carl
…killed a man. In almost any other life, it would have been the defining moment, overshadowing all else. In Magee’s life, the incident almost had an inevitability about it, and…
Poet Jenny Qi on what shapes her work
…thrived there academically, she also had to deal with her mother’s terminal illness, somehow juggling school with trips home to Las Vegas to help provide care, an experience she wrote…
