“A new book, ‘Little Blue Dot,’ by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are.”
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Da Art of Storytellin’ (A Prequel)
“I’d heard that moan in the presence of older Southern black folk my entire life, but I’d never heard it connecting two rhymed verses. Art couldn’t get any fresher than that.”
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40 Years Later: Sade, “Promise”
“Promise” isn’t necessarily about love, or even about surrender, but about giving your heart over, repeatedly, and enduring the failures that come with the exchange.
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30 Years Later: Phyllis Hyman, “I Refuse to Be Lonely”
The singer’s first posthumous album deserves to be remembered as the bravest of her career.
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Your A.I. Lover Will Change You
“A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?”
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Rappers Used to Sell the Booze. Now They Own It.
“E-40 and Ja Rule got real about taking control of the liquor industry’s love affair with hip-hop.”
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Wolf Nerds
“It’s one thing to love something; it’s another to share the thing you love with people who are as excited as you are.”
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Submitting to the Beast
“A father and son in New Orleans—feasting and flaneuring.”
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Messy, Messy Love: A Reading List for Star-Crossed Lovers
It’s complicated: A tribute to real love stories, in all their weird and chaotic glory.
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The Portal Opens
“People who love Phish do so with a quasi-religious devotion. People who dislike Phish do so with an equal fervor.”
