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Climate ChangeDecember 21, 2021
Alfred Döblin’s Surreal Foray Into Climate Fiction
The 20th-century German writer’s novel Mountains Oceans Giants is a stunning and strange look into what an environmental apocalypse might look like.
Joe Bucciero
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MusicNovember 19, 2019
The Songs of Canceled Men
A new book revisits the lives of artists like James Brown, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra and asks how music criticism can reckon with the lives of immoral artists.
Joe Bucciero
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MusicJuly 9, 2019
The Never-Ending Story of Bill Callahan’s Existential Americana
His latest album, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, tells the tale of the singer-songwriter’s complicated middle age.
Joe Bucciero
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MusicFebruary 22, 2019
A Punk-Rock Path to Inner Peace
Buzzcocks’ first two seminal albums, recently reissued, offer something besides anarchy.
Joe Bucciero
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