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Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening

Sly Stone’s Political and Musical Awakening 1

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In May of 1971, Marvin Gaye released what many consider to be his masterwork, “What’s Going On?” A song cycle told from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning…

How the Meanest Genre Got Nice

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Two months ago, the world lost a gruff and burly guitar player named Al Barile. He was sixty-three when he died, after a battle with cancer, and those who mourned him…

Why Do Doctors Write?

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The first patient I ever wrote about wasn’t actually my patient; as a first-year medical student, that possessive grammatical construct—“my patient”—hadn’t yet entered my consciousness, much less my lexicon. In any…

The Sixties Come Back to Life in “Everything Is Now”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The film critic and cultural historian J. Hoberman’s new book, “Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” is as jubilantly overstuffed as its subtitle. The…

Haruka Aoki’s “Nothing to See”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Animals displaying human behaviors are often the stuff of fables, intent on communicating moral lessons. But in this work, by the Japanese American poet-illustrator Haruka Aoki, a cat is, delightfully, just…