Link Wray’s Rustic Masterpieces By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Link Wray is best known for his rock instrumentals, but in the early 1970s, he and his brothers recorded three albums in a chicken shack that sound like nothing else in his massive oeuvre.
Living to Create: Talking Music and Writing With Drummer Emily Rose Epstein By Aaron Gilbreath Commentary Musician Emily Rose Epstein talks about her dual life as a rock drummer and writer.
The Queer Generation Gap By Soraya Roberts Feature How the sexual fluidity of the next generation reflects the limitations of the one that came before it.
Beyond “Rumble”: Talking with John O’Connor About the Other Link Wray By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Journalist John O’Connor talks about writing his epic Oxford American magazine feature on musician Link Wray.
The Humanities Marketplace As a Circle of Hell By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The struggles of a motivated, educated academic to find sufficient work.
The Fault in Our Stars: On Fake Celebrity Interviews By Soraya Roberts Feature Fake celebrity interviews have been around for years, but Germany has seemingly become one of the largest exporters.
The Making of Nirvana’s Most Vulnerable Album By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight An oral history of the night Nirvana recorded “Unplugged,” their most tender, original live performance.
Karina Longworth on the Women Caught in Howard Hughes’ Hollywood Web of Gossip By Rae Nudson Feature Howard Hughes used gossip, spies and money to control Hollywood’s women for nearly 60 years. Karina Longworth critically examines the Golden Age’s gossip to stop his false narratives from becoming our history.
Stan Lee: 1922-2018 By Mike Dang Highlight Stan Lee, the legendary comic book writer, editor, and publisher of Marvel comics, has died at the age of 95.
RomCon: Our Failure to See Black Romantic Comedies By Soraya Roberts Feature Despite the growing popularity of black romcoms, they remain segregated in public perception due to cultural white-washing.
Partners in Crime: The Life, Loves & Nuyorican Noir of Jerry Rodriguez By Michael Gonzales Feature Michael Gonzales remembers a real friendship and the makings of a brutal crime novel.
Working to Preserve Traditional Gospel Music By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight With approximately 75 percent of golden age gospel music lost, the Black Gospel Music Restoration Project is trying to save what’s left.
The Resplendent Photography of Carrie Mae Weems By Danielle Jackson Highlight Carrie Mae Weems may be our best contemporary photographer.
Elena Ferrante and the “My Brilliant Friend” Adaptation for HBO By Danielle Jackson Highlight Merve Emre interviews Elena Ferrante about an upcoming HBO adaptation of her novel, “My Brilliant Friend.”
Remembering Ntozake Shange By Danielle Jackson Commentary The poet, novelist, and playwright Ntozake Shange died Saturday, October 27.
Let’s Talk About Sex Scenes By Soraya Roberts Feature Countless women have been mistreated ever since sex became common on our screens. Hollywood’s newfound awareness of intimacy choreography can help change things.
Nic and David Sheff on ‘Beautiful Boy’ and Telling Addiction Stories Responsibly By Zachary Siegel Feature Nic and his father David Sheff’s memoirs about grappling with Nic’s addiction are the basis for the new movie ‘Beautiful Boy.’ It was important to them that the movie communicate what addiction really is — an illness.
Shelved: The Sound of Big Star’s Self-Destruction By Tom Maxwell Feature As the band dissolved, they managed to capture their destruction in some dark, powerful music.
On Blackface, Bert Williams, and Excellence By Danielle Jackson Commentary A complicated racial anxiety rests at the heart of American entertainment.
The Others: Why Women Are Shut Out of Horror By Soraya Roberts Feature Horror movies give more screen time to strong female characters and attract a large female audience. But few female filmmakers get to work on them.
Shackled to Twitter By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The pros and cons of building one’s brand on Twitter.
I Remember When Rock was Young: Elton John at 71 By Krista Stevens Highlight “He’s sold 150 million albums and been famous for five decades. But do we really know Elton John?”
Reading with Kiese Laymon’s “Heavy” By Danielle Jackson Commentary “Heavy” confronts generations of Black art.
The Last Puerto Rican Social Club in Brooklyn By C.J. Karlsson Feature Social clubs were once the glue that held the Puerto Rican diaspora together. Today, there’s only one left in Brooklyn.
Raised by Hip-Hop By Juan Vidal Feature In hip-hop and skateboarding, one young man finds an outlet for his aggression.
Maybe Beauty Doesn’t Have to Mean Pain By Michelle Weber Highlight Little girls flock to ballet classes, but the art isn’t kind to their bodies, autonomy, or sense of self. What has to change?
‘Do you like scary movies?’ By Michelle Weber Highlight We voluntarily watch horror movies, despite the very real fight-or-flight physical reactions they provoke. Why?
Living with Dolly Parton By Jessica Wilkerson Feature Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.
Greens By Longreads Feature “’I’m good,’ I told him. I didn’t tell him I was running eleven miles, playing two hours of ball, and eating eight hundred calories a day.”
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