Dark Paths to Resurrection: A Conversation with Bill Mallonee
By Interview Issue 114
I don’t think God wastes anything, our victories or our failures.
Read MoreLetters, Music, Flesh: Calligraphy as Sacred Art Among Christians and Jews
By Visual Art Issue 105
For the calligrapher, words are always flesh.
Read MoreDuet
By Poetry Issue 105
Icons of Soul
By Photo Essay Issue 105
I found an unexpected resonance in D’Angelo’s low-fi, melancholy mood, articulated in the album Voodoo, which has mystified me for years.
Read MoreExposure
By Culture Issue 104
If I’m to be serious about my music, or any art, I shouldn’t put it toward anything as problematic as God, but toward ambition, achievement: the only reliable gods.
Read MoreLapsang Souchong
By Poetry Issue 103
The kettle begins to sing
the one note of its one song.
The day becomes itself beyond
the glass of the kitchen window.
Something like a Prayer
By Poetry Issue 103
We’re the seeds our mothers have been planting. If
X marks the spot, let’s dig up the whole alphabet.
Life After Thirty | Death, Change and Time: Bruce Cockburn
By Interview Issue 100
There was a kind of availability I had to learn in order to create a song like that. A capacity for a kind of ecstatic contact.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Collaboration and Community: Claire Holley
By Interview Issue 100
I’m a little jealous of my thirty-year-old self. I miss how cute she thought she was. Her goal was to play as much as possible, for whomever, whenever, mostly solo because it was cheaper.
Read MoreKinsman-Redeemers
By Essay Issue 100
In the Avett Brothers, we share in life’s ups and downs even without blood kinship, and by offering one another redemption born of the generosity of forgiveness, the gift of collaboration, and the freedom to pursue our ideas, our musical family blossoms with creativity.
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