The Selected Ballads

Very glad I happened to see the last-minute announcement that Alex Ross and Ethan Iverson were doing their program on twentieth century musi...

"Trailers" for books is enough of a thing now that somebody is giving out awards for them?  At an actual awards ceremony ?  I'...

I picked up a cheap, mint hardcover copy of David Thomson's Have You Seen...? at the Housing Works bookstore the other night.  I began...

The Awl brought my attention to this Joni Mitchell quote: "Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name ...

... is Murgatroyd .

"I was sick all day, and then the fever began to subside.  I had received another telex, monosyllabic, saying it was the twilight of th...

My text for today is this article that uses the latest Confederate history flap as an excuse for a refresher course on the causes of the C...