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We Have the Salvation Army to Thank for the Hipster Doughnut
Even during the worst of war, the ring-shaped confections offered a bite of joy and a much-needed morale boost to weary soldiers during World War I.
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Claudia Geib
via
Eater
on
October 24, 2023
How Gremlins Went From Fairy Stories to Warplanes to Hollywood Legend
Meet these slippery, mischievous reflections of our anxieties about technology.
by
Hadley Meares
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Atlas Obscura
on
October 24, 2023
Xerox and Roll: The Corporate Machine and the Making of Punk
On the 85th anniversary of the first xerographic print, a collection of punk flyers from Cornell University provides an object lesson on anti-art.
by
Alex Houston
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JSTOR Daily
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October 22, 2023
The Latin School Teacher Who Made Classics Popular
A new biography of Edith Hamilton tells the story of how and why ancient literature became widely read in the United States.
by
Emily Wilson
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The Nation
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October 17, 2023
The Canonization of Lou Reed
In a new biography, the Velvet Underground front man embodies a New York that exists only in memory.
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Jeremy Lybarger
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The New Republic
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October 17, 2023
Working-Class Artists Thrived in the New Deal Era
During the New Deal, mass left movements and government funding spawned a boomlet in working-class art. For once, art wasn’t just the province of the rich.
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Liza Featherstone
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Jacobin
on
October 16, 2023
Lou Reed Didn't Want to Be King
Will Hermes's new biography, "Lou Reed: The King of New York," tries—and fails—to pin the rocker down.
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Hannah Gold
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The Yale Review
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October 16, 2023
The Forgotten Poet at the Center of San Francisco’s Longest Obscenity Trial
Amid Reagan’s late-sixties crackdown on the California counterculture, a jury was tasked with deciding whether Lenore Kandel’s psychedelic sex poems had “redeeming social importance.”
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Joy Lanzendorfer
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The New Yorker
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October 13, 2023
Native Americans on the Silver Screen, From Wild West Shows to 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
How American Indians in Hollywood have gone from stereotypes to starring roles.
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Sandra Hale Schulman
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Smithsonian
on
October 12, 2023
How WPA State Guides Fused the Essential and the Eccentric
Touring the American soul.
by
Scott Borchert
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Humanities
on
October 11, 2023
Rocky Horror Has Surprising Roots in Victorian Seances
‘Time Warp’ all the way back to the 1800s.
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Victoria Linchong
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Atlas Obscura
on
October 11, 2023
Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A. Captured Two Sides of Reagan’s America
Springsteen's albums offer a tragic-romantic view of the working class in Reagan-era America.
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William Harris
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Jacobin
on
October 10, 2023
Why Generational Thinking Isn't Bull
Reflections on Pavement, Nirvana, the very meaning of history, and the end of neoliberalism.
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Charles Petersen
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Making History
on
October 8, 2023
Pete Rose Remembers the Biggest Postseason Brawl in Baseball History
“You know how many second basemen or shortstops I knocked on their ass in my career?”
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Keith O'Brien
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Intelligencer
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October 8, 2023
The Least-Known Rock God
A new biography of the Velvet Underground founder, Lou Reed, considers the stark duality of the man and his music.
by
Will Hermes
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The Atlantic
on
October 8, 2023
The Long History of Jewface
Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose is the latest example of the struggles around Jewish representation on the stage and screen.
by
Jody Rosen
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The New Yorker
on
October 7, 2023
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Book Bans Aren't the Only Threat to Literature in Classrooms
Literature is key to a healthy democracy, but schools are leaving books behind.
by
Jonna Perrillo
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Andrew Newman
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Made By History
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October 6, 2023
A Right to Paint Us Whole
W.E.B. Du Bois’ message to African American artists.
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Melvin L. Rogers
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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October 4, 2023
The Musical Legacy of a Mississippi Prison Farm
The new album “Some Mississippi Sunday Morning” collects gospel songs recorded inside a notorious penitentiary.
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
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The New Yorker
on
October 2, 2023
The Surprisingly Radical Roots of the Renaissance Fair
The first of these festivals debuted in the early 1960s, serving as a prime example of the United States' burgeoning counterculture.
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Gillian Bagwell
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Smithsonian
on
September 28, 2023
The Transgressor
RJ Smith’s biography of Chuck Berry examines his subject’s instinct for crossing the line musically, racially, and morally.
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RJ Smith
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New York Review of Books
on
September 28, 2023
Fit Nation
A conversation about "the gains and pains of America’s exercise obsession."
by
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
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Lara Freidenfelds
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Nursing Clio
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September 27, 2023
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Mettlesome, Mad, Extravagant City
In the streets of New York, we try to imagine the city as Walt Whitman, and other artists of his time, experienced it.
by
Ed Ayers
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September 21, 2023
The Replacements Are Still a Puzzle
The reissue of “Tim” shows both the prescience and the unrealized promise of the beloved band.
by
Elizabeth Nelson
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The New Yorker
on
September 21, 2023
‘It’s a Charged Place’: Parchman Farm, the Mississippi Prison with a Remarkable Musical History
Inmates at this bucolic but brutal prison have long been singing the blues to sustain themselves, and a new compilation of gospel songs continues the legacy.
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Sheldon Pearce
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The Guardian
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September 20, 2023
Feel-Ins, Know-Ins, Be-Ins
The most hypnotic piece of music released so far in 2023 was recorded forty-seven years ago in a barely adequate studio in Rockland County, New York.
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Adam Shatz
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New York Review of Books
on
September 19, 2023
The Undoing of a Great American Band
Sly and the Family Stone suggested new possibilities in music and life—until it all fell apart.
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James Parker
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The Atlantic
on
September 16, 2023
How Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus Broke the Hollywood Blacklists
The 1960 film was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers. Its arrival in theaters was a middle finger to the McCarthyist witch hunt in Hollywood.
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Taylor Dorrell
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Jacobin
on
September 14, 2023
A Reimagination of 'Madama Butterfly' Isn't Radical, Says Artist Phil Chan
The famed opera has been criticized for its racist portrayals of Asian-Americans.
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Arun Rath
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Phil Chan
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WGBH
on
September 14, 2023
Rethinking Spy vs. Spy: A Hand From One Page, A Bomb From Another
Like the spies themselves, the image we have of something is often what gets us in trouble.
by
Gyasi Hall
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Longreads
on
September 12, 2023
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