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A Man and His Mandolin

…like the banana bread for dessert, we’re told. And after dinner came the real main course — they played music. Black chronicles it all with care and detail, as the…

Father Knows Best

…way. He was a newcomer to an established lineup. He was decades younger than Monroe but also younger than the rest of the Blue Grass Boys. He was also a…

Storytellers with Loud Guitars

called Gangstabilly and Pizza Deliverance? But it’s not enough to say the album made the band. It was essential to their survival and to everything that followed. And back in…

Slow Violence, Then and Now

…the famous book Silent Spring, as an inspiration. What can Carson’s example teach us? Nixon: Because of her familial responsibilities as a caregiver and breadwinner, Carson never had the chance…

As Real as They Are Magical

…two of the collection’s most stylistically distinct stories, he waits as long as possible to reveal exactly how the real communicates with the magical. Throughout “A Complicated Correspondence,” two buddies…

The Collateral Consequences of Hubris

…tony Belle Meade society. Decades after graduation, Yeatman will pull everyone’s orbit in the political space, whether candidate or backer, community activist or — in Vanessa’s case — veneered wife….

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