Imagine a combination of Stephen Colbert (the real one, that is) and John Updike.
Interview
Commentary/Interview: “Du Bois’s Telegram” — Restricting Literary Resistance
Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?
Film Interview: Syrian Filmmaker Talal Derki on his Oscar-Nominated Documentary — Separating Delusions from Mythology
Syrian-Kurdish filmmaker Talal Derki on love and hate in his homeland and the “schizophrenia” of being an Oscar nominee.
Music Interview: Martin Phillipps of The Chills
It would appear that Martin Phillipps and company are experiencing a late-career renaissance that bodes well for their future.
Music Interview: Michael Daves on How Anyone can be a Bluegrass Singer
“You don’t really know how to perform bluegrass until you interact with others.”
Music Interview: Talking With Colin Blunstone — Post-Zombies
“It’s a very exciting prospect that your peers think your worthy to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
Book Interview: The Story of Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices
The author’s combination of knowledge and experience has resulted in a boisterous chronicle of one of indie rock’s least probable but most luminous and unremitting stars.
Book Interview: Robert W. Fieseler on the legacy of the “Tinderbox”
One of the few books that examine the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
Music Preview: The Wailin’ Jennys Return to Cambridge
“Our intention was something other than being famous. When you create art from that place, a song is going to connect with people.”
Book Interview: Tracy Fessenden, author of “Religion Around Billie Holiday”
“It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them.”