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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’s New Album Steeped in Longing
[ad_1] When I was growing up, the Sunday comics section of the local newspaper included a visual illusion similar to a Magic Eye. It looked like a circle made up...
Studying Stones Can Rock Your World
[ad_1] Write about what you know, they say. All due respect, that’s lousy advice, far too easily misinterpreted as “write about what you already know.” No doubt you find your...
Bonnie Slotnick, the Downtown Food-History Savant
[ad_1] On a humid afternoon not long ago, Bonnie Slotnick, the owner of an eponymous cookbook shop in the East Village, hiked up to the carpeted top floor of an...
The Forgotten History of Sex in America
[ad_1] In 1627, a professional lace-maker named Thomasine Hall boarded a ship in England and arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, to become a maidservant in the household of a man named...
The Brief, Brilliant Career of a Forgotten Trailblazer of Modern Jazz
[ad_1] Where has Charles Bell been all my life? Or, rather, where have his recordings been? Why did I only find out about them now? How have I only now,...
Pascal Campion’s “The Last Rays of Summer”
[ad_1] Summer can seem as though it will go on forever. Then, come August, there’s suddenly a chill in the air, and you realize that the unbearably hot days are...
Early Scenes: An Excerpt from Al Pacino’s Memoir “Sonny Boy”
[ad_1] My mother began taking me to the movies when I was a little boy of three or four. She worked at factory and other menial jobs during the day,...
Le Veau d’Or Makes a Thrillingly Old-Fashioned Comeback
[ad_1] There are no add-ons at Le Veau d’Or, no sneaky little ways the restaurant tries to boost the price of your meal. There’s something perversely democratic about this, in...
What Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Took from the Tornado
[ad_1] Since 1996, when Gillian Welch and her partner, the guitarist David Rawlings, released “Revival,” their début album, they’ve been making tense and eerie acoustic music about desire and devastation,...
Teen-Age Alienation, on Display
[ad_1] In the nineteen-eighties, Andrea Modica took photos of the students at her Catholic alma mater. “I recognized something there that I had to deal with about my time in...
