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May 14, 2025In a 2004 essay called “Social Life, Literary Desires, Literary Corruption,” Norman Mailer examined what he thought was wrong with journalism. It’s been taken over...
May 7, 2025I’ve just finished reading a review copy of a terrific forthcoming book: You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America’s...
April 22, 2025About 20 years ago, I attended a symposium at Howard University in Washington, D.C. called, “I Remember U.” The purpose was for scholars to videotape a large group of...
April 18, 2025A book that should be a part of every high school curriculum in America is Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Safe Your Life by Wynton Marsalis. Marsalis is...
April 3, 2025It’s understandable why Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story, was ignored by feminists, even though the film was screened in March, which is Women’s History...
March 25, 2025In the spring of 1985, I walked into my father’s office on the seventh floor of National Geographic and found myself face-to-face with what, arguably, would become...
March 20, 2025I recently paid a visit to a nearby grocery store. A year ago, I helped build it. I was returning after a break of a few months. It’s time to pick up some shifts for the spring...
March 17, 2025I wasn’t sure how to write about Colin Vallon. The brilliant Swiss jazz pianist is one of my favorite musicians, and his new album Samares is ravishing. I wanted to...
January 28, 2025All day is a long time. That’s both an observation and the name of a novel by David Sanchez. The book’s protagonist is a man named David who gets addicted to...
