Aeon
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Mark Miller, Kathryn Nave, George Deane & Andy Clark
– Sep 25, 3:00 AM
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar. – from…
TERRY ADAMS - BILL BUTLER AND THE UNICORN BOOKSHOP Bill Butler was a six-foot five, charismatic poet and writer from the USA. A photo of him taken when he was in the marinessuggests he had the physical presence of a young Lee Marvin! Already a…
Record Store Day is upon us once more, with the second drop landing in stores worldwide to give turntable enthusiasts access to exclusive vinyls from artists old and new. Musicians that are dropping exclusive records include Alice Cooper, Daft…
How can it be that a presidential election in the US in 2020 is being fought by the Republicans on the febrile ground of anti-communism? Trump claims that the Democratic party, for whom free universal healthcare is too radical, is a Trojan horse…
Lou Reed was unusually hard to pin down in the 1980s. After the gay-rights-rallying cry of Transformer in 1972, he spent a decade mating queerness with rockn'roll and flirting with his own homosexuality in public statements, an identity that seemed…
Rock And Roll Globe
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Marcus K. Dowling
– Sep 25, 11:40 AM
The emergence of Rolling Stone's just-released 2020-updated listing of the “Top 500 Albums of All Time” has highlighted awareness of rock's latest — and to many, most damaging — pop-dormant cycle. Insofar as what comes…
Rolling Stone
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Simon Vozick-Levinson
– Sep 25, 10:26 AM
Emma Swift, “One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)” Swift's Blonde on the Tracks, released this August, provides the most recent entry on this playlist. The Nashville singer-songwriter finds the sometimes-hidden heart in each of the…
Are thrillers a safe space for the imperfect woman? It might seem odd to talk about thrillers being a safe space for any woman, given how often we end up scared or even dead on their pages. But, what the thriller writer has long known, is that the…
Graham Swift's Here We Are ; Natalie Zina Walschots' Hench ; Christina Lamb's Our Bodies, Their Battlefields ; and Laila Lalami's Conditional Citizens all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. Article continues after advertisement 8…
