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Greg Tate (1957–2021)
...”; brought his cameo genius to too many of my classroom operations to count and found the humor in my overshot instructor’s ambition (“Sis, you trying to teach Greil Marcus and Fred Moten in one sitting...
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Triple Double
... Double Trio approaches aboutness in a 1978 essay about Wilson Harris and his novel The Eye of the Scarecrow: “The novel’s plotlessness, its inability or refusal to represent experience in an...
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She Drew the Hallelujah
... revisited the lives and careers of artists including Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, and Ma Rainey (in the form of a Netflix reimagining of August Wilson’s play about the blues icon). At...
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Nerds of Prey
... meeting, recounted about halfway through Fred Vogelstein’s Dogfight, is the crowning moment in a years-long erosion of goodwill between two companies that were once so chummy that Google’s former CEO...
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What gets called a protest and what gets called a riot?
... Last night, a St. Louis County grand jury decided not to bring charges against Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Michael Brown. The demonstrations against the decision are righteous...
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The Bottle and the Damage Done
... denizens, it offered an atmosphere of boozy bonhomie and the opportunity for literary stargazing of a special sort. (Hey, I’m urinating right next to Fred Exley!) And it didn’t take long before I was...
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No Lady of Leisure
... absorbing chapters of Victoria Wilson’s A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907–1940, the first volume of what will be a two-part biography, lay out the retrievable details of that early life, and...
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Pub Dates
... more than three hundred singers from Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire to Shirley Temple and Cassandra Wilson--have that same midconversation, right-in-the-thick-of-it urgency. Whether it’s Bach on...
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Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century) edited by Steven Henry Madoff
... actual responses to a questionnaire, designed by critic Brian Sholis, about the long-term effects of education on artists' work and careers. Participants include Ann Hamilton, Fred Wilson, Dana Schutz...
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