culture

Break on Through: Finding The Doors

Towards A New History of Venetian Art

Necessity Drives Us Together

Bill-Bored and Sha-Boozing

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

Bedeviled Democratic Song

A Punk Rock Paean

Lewis Lapham, a Prince of American Letters and Traitor to His Class

Conscience of the Blues: How Howlin’ Wolf Got Caged in Oregon

The 20 Best Energy Films: From Gritty Carbon-Spewing Potboilers to Nuclear Reactor Catastrophes

Retroactive Update: A New Recording of Bach’s Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard

Pedro Rios Martinez’s Visual Conversation

Trans People are a Menace to God-Fearing Toilets

Sound Grammar: The Best Jazz Records of the Year So Far

The Folly of Atomic Power

Olympian Water Music

The Political Lyre

Hymn from Hell:  Greenwood Burns for Trump

Rocco Schavone: Italy’s Red Hot Cop in Ice Cold Murders 

Practicing the Past

How Science Fiction Can Inspire Climate Activism

Gilded Age Organ Riches From Long A. G. O. and Last Week

Architecture of Cities: the Irony of Bears

Service in Dissent: Joint Statement of U.S. Government Officials Who Have Resigned Over U.S. Policy Towards Gaza, Palestine, and Israel

Kinky Friedman, the Abbie Hoffman of Country Music

Merle Haggard and the Lost “Free Life”

Partenope by the Bay: Handel in San Francisco

Feedback Dope

Changed Circumstances: Out with Elgar’s Pomp

Mr. Consistency: An Hommage

It Must be High or Low

Sex, Death and Manuscripts: Anna Magdalena Bach Rises from the Dead

Richard Valdes Steps Out of a Dream

Why Are We Kafkaesque?

No One’s Neutral Come Eurovision Time