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Waits: Guthrie's Heir? (Music)

Tom Waits is an imaginary hobo. He cruises the oddball corners of American pop culture, collecting the deft and moving and loopy short takes he sees and imagines there.

Gene Santoro
The Jazz Singer (Music)

Most Americans don't like instrumental music.

Gene Santoro
Women's Rights: As the World Turns (Gender Issues, Politics, Society)

Does it seem to you that feminism this past year was just one long gargle over the meaning of Monica? That the biggest women's issue was whether oral sex is sex?

Katha Pollitt
The Dynasty of Mingus (Music)

For the past year and a half, I've been spending most of my time between 1922 and 1979--the years of Charles Mingus's birth and death, since I'm writing his biography, due to be published next ye

Gene Santoro
Ellington Hits 100 (Music)

On the eve of the New York premiere of his

Symphony No.

Albert Murray
The People vs. Larry Flynt? (Gender Issues, Bill Clinton, Society)

I didn't realize how much I was counting on Larry Flynt until I noticed I had spent Monday evening trying to find on the Web or TV a report of the much-anticipated news conference in which h

Katha Pollitt

Blogs

The Bush Presidency, Undead
Eric Alterman

With the opening of George W's presidential library, pundits are rushing to whitewash the memory of those years of folly.

April 26, 2013
Chrissy Amphlett's Pleasure Anthem
Chloe Angyal

In 2013, a song like “I Touch Myself” is less shocking than it once was. But it is still revolutionary.

April 22, 2013
Give Me the Bad News First
Eric Alterman

Press coverage is hasty, error-prone and frequently depressing—but it nonetheless plays a vital role in our society.

April 18, 2013
Ten Years Ago Today a Dixie Chick Dared to Hit Bush on War—and a Hate Campaign Began
Greg Mitchell

The group's career suffered over Natalie Maines' comment against invading Iraq.

March 10, 2013
Note to Critics: Oscar Winner 'Sugar Man' Is Indeed 'Political'
Greg Mitchell

Sixto Rodriguez, subject of the best documentary choice, wrote hard-hitting folk songs, including several that became anthems for the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.

February 25, 2013
Barenboim Joins Arab and Israeli Musicians in a Tribute to Edward Said
Greg Mitchell

A collaborative musical project he helped found carries on the Nation contributor’s legacy.

January 30, 2013
Positively Folk Street: The Coen Brothers Return With a Film on Greenwich Village in the Early 1960s
Greg Mitchell

The promising new film is said to be based on the memoir of folkie Dave Van Ronk.

January 25, 2013
Shaken and Stirred
Eric Alterman

Some details in Skyfall are just too silly to accept.

November 29, 2012
Bob Dylan’s 'Tempest': A Q&A with Greil Marcus
Jon Wiener

The long-time Dylan historian sounds off on the Bard’s thirty-fifth studio album.

October 2, 2012
Rockers Renew Radicalism of Woody's 'This Land is Your Land'
John Nichols

Tom Morello marks Guthrie’s 100th by restoring the left-wing verses of his most famous song.

July 13, 2012