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See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody by Bob Mould
... When a young, Boston-based musician named Charles Thompson—soon to be known by the nom de guerre Black Francis—needed a bassist for his fledgling group the Pixies, he ran a classified ad...
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Q&A: Stieg Larsson's Ghost Speaks
... still around. Fifty was too young to die. BF: That’s why you never made a valid will? SL: Yes, that was a mistake. Swedish intestacy laws hate unmarried partners. Eva deserves more than she...
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Pub Dates
... young singer named Elvis Presley, to their solitary existences as they age out of the limelight. CRITICISM Alex Ross follows up his excellent book The Rest Is Noise (2007) with LISTEN TO THIS...
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Unwrapping the Message
... But The Anthology of Rap is not exactly interested in curating the sort of formal history that jazz scholars tend to favor. Instead, the excellent editors, Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois, have...
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Arms and the Man
... Africa. With characteristic bluster, Boris Yeltsin, the would-be revolutionary who overturned the ancien régime, not only crowned Kalashnikov a lieutenant general but draped the Order of Saint Andrew...
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How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior by Laura Kipnis
...” concern for the young intern, the public saw a “tight rictus” and bared teeth of “unacknowledged aggression.” According to Kipnis, Tripp’s unconscious “syntax of unnerving smiles”—along with her...
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Sep 9, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am
...://www.bookforum.com/inprint/>? Poet Kevin Young asks this question about rap lyrics in his feature review of The Anthology of Rap , edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew...
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Anxiety Over Influence
... members. If I buy that same item, I am equally free to loan it or give it away. What I cannot do is make another copy (that is essentially file sharing). In the digital world, where Andrew Carnegie...
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Kissing the Mask by William T. Vollmann
... Femininity is enacted by Noh players, typically older men who impersonate beautiful young girls on stage. An awareness of the illusion, Vollmann explains, is part of the aesthetic value of Noh; beyond the...
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The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamison
... her voice piping aphorisms like song lyrics into the phone downstairs: ‘It’s not about staying young. It’s about loving old.’” Deft portraits like this will make Jamison a voice to pay attention to...
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Secret Self-Help
... sabotage a young man away from his burgeoning interest in the church and God. Wormwood is the voice in the man’s ear, exploiting his moments of restlessness, laziness, boredom, and cynicism. Screwtape...
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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
...) secret lives have become highly public since their deaths—surely would have complimented the other on her prodigious output during the months, years, and decades of dyke drama. Unlike Andrew Wilson...
