Created in New Orleans and played around the world, the music we call jazz is filled with genius, legend, and tragedy.
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My Own Private Iceland
When an island nation of 300,000 residents receives more than two million tourists a year, radical change is inevitable — but is it all negative?
Posted inCommentary, Uncategorized
Did We Learn Nothing From the 2008 Crisis?
The continuation of the false narrative of what caused the 2008 financial collapse is alarming.
Posted inArts & Culture, Science & Nature, Story
Critics: Endgame
If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Big Unsolved Mystery of Little Marjorie West
The unsolved mystery of a 1938 kidnapping continues to befuddle in Pennsylvania.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Tom Petty’s Problematic Album Southern Accents
In 1985, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most beloved songwriters made a regrettable misstep with a narrow conception of Southern identity.
Posted inArts & Culture, Highlight, Quotes
After the US Open, a History of Racial Caricature
In the wake of an Australian cartoon about the U.S. Open historian Brooke Newman traces a history of racial caricature.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Irish Butter Kerrygold Has Conquered America’s Kitchens
This is the story of how this unassuming yellow, salty, grass-fed import seduced a nation that produces more than enough of its own cream.
Posted inFeature
Shades of Grey
In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?
Posted inNonfiction
Can We Ever Make It Suntory Time Again?
Excellent Japanese whiskies were easy to come by, until suddenly they weren’t. What happened? And why can’t one whisky aficionado let go?
