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A Week in Culture: Jesse Moss, Part 2
DAY FOUR, San Francisco Visiting my father in Noe Valley, kids in tow. He announces his latest obsession. The founder of the Chinese Film Industry was a jew from Odessa named Benjamin Brodsky. My...
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An Urgent Message
Bob Adelman, An Urgent Message, Washington, DC, 1963, Courtesy of the Photographer Bob Adelman, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King Outside Montgomery on the Fourth Day of the March,...
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An Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane
A few years ago I found a used, first-edition hardcover of Dr. Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins’s 1975 book, Coltrane: A Biography, online for $150. I had long admired its feverish, street-pulpy story about...
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A man unzipping his fly is vulnerable to attack. Then the zipper got stuck. An angel flies in the window to unstick it. A drone was monitoring all this In real time And it appears on a monitor on Mars,...
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An Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane
We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! A few years ago I found a used, first-edition...
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A Superman at the Supermarket, and Other News
Bob Adelman during the march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965.So you’ve bought an English country house—great! And you have a time machine, allowing you to choose when you’ll reside at said country...
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Woman Alive
The memoirs of an imprisoned suffragette. Max Nelson is writing a series on prison literature. Read the previous entry, on John Cleland’s very erotic prison novel, here.In 1908, when she was...
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Unconventional, Part 7: Party Time with Dick Gregory
Throughout the summer, Nathan Gelgud, a correspondent for the Daily, has been posting a weekly comic about the writers, artists, and demonstrators who attended the contested 1968 Democratic National...
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Rise Up
Alexander Bedward’s mythical powers of flight. Edward White’s The Lives of Others is a monthly series about unusual, largely forgotten figures from history. It’s impossible to know exactly how many...
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An Intimate History of America
Arthur Rothstein, Girl at Gee’s Bend, Alabama, 1937. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. As we walked through the National Museum of African...
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The Premiere of Four Women Artists
Pecolia Warner, 1975. Something shapes people. It’s the world in which they act that makes their experience, that furnishes the economic background that he grows up in and the folkways and the...
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Pray Like Aretha Franklin
I remember the songs that taught me the human voice is the most powerful instrument on earth. Some are immortal—Billie Holiday’s “I Must Have That Man,” Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” the...
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An Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane
A few years ago I found a used, first-edition hardcover of Dr. Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins’s 1975 book, Coltrane: A Biography, online for $150. I had long admired its feverish, street-pulpy story about...
View ArticleThe Ballad of Ferguson, Missouri
A man unzipping his fly is vulnerable to attack. Then the zipper got stuck. An angel flies in the window to unstick it. A drone was monitoring all this In real time And it appears on a monitor on Mars,...
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An Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane
We’re out until January 5, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2014 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! A few years ago I found a used, first-edition...
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A Superman at the Supermarket, and Other News
Bob Adelman during the march from Selma to Montgomery, 1965. So you’ve bought an English country house—great! And you have a time machine, allowing you to choose when you’ll reside at said country...
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Woman Alive
The memoirs of an imprisoned suffragette. Max Nelson is writing a series on prison literature. Read the previous entry, on John Cleland’s very erotic prison novel, here. In 1908, when she was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Unconventional, Part 7: Party Time with Dick Gregory
Throughout the summer, Nathan Gelgud, a correspondent for the Daily, has been posting a weekly comic about the writers, artists, and demonstrators who attended the contested 1968 Democratic National...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rise Up
Alexander Bedward’s mythical powers of flight. Edward White’s The Lives of Others is a monthly series about unusual, largely forgotten figures from history. It’s impossible to know exactly how many...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Intimate History of America
Arthur Rothstein, Girl at Gee’s Bend, Alabama, 1937. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. As we walked through the National Museum of African...
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