To Look for America: A Road Trip, a Soundtrack
One thing I was taught about travel—because my father is a black man born in Alabama in 1950—was that there are safe places for black people to go and places that aren't as safe.
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Lolita Landmarks
Over at Lit Hub, Rebecca Brill has traced Lolita’s 62 years of history “from transgressive lit to pop iconography,” from inception to Kubrick to Lana Del Ray’s obsession on Born to…
Song of the Day: “Don’t Tell Our Friends About Me”
Blake Mills is an accomplished studio guitarist who’s worked with a wide variety of impressive names including Lucinda Williams, Conor Oberst, Fiona Apple, Lana Del Ray, Norah Jones, Billy Gibbons,…
Does Shakespeare Suck?
In a response to Ira Glass’s “Shakespeare sucks” tweet, John Pistelli, at The Millions, wonders if the radio host’s social media outrage—specifically, that the characters in King Lear aren’t relatable—is…