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Byrne is also the author of an astute book titled How Music Works,
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Those casual fans wonder why he can’t be more like the Stones, unfailing jukeboxes of their earlier selves. They want to squint and see the young Dylan, with his Pre-Raphaelite hair and his Brando sneer. They want, at least for an hour and a half, a magic act: a man in his eighties who is a man in his youth.
David Remnick • A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan
Christopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa
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when the going gets tough, Americans build new civic institutions .
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Her public reputation, like Demeter’s daughter, crawls back up from the underworld.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
His first action on reelection was to set about removing all treasonous works from the city’s schools and libraries. Thompson appointed a theater owner and former billboard changer named Sport Hermann to purge the city’s institutions of any works that were less than “100 percent American.” Hermann appointed a body called the Patriots’ League to
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This basic framework—the disavowal of censorship and a pseudoscientific rather than moralistic condemnation of obscenity, predicated on a nonsectarian membership led by middle-class men