The Misread City

BACK in the '90s, when I was at my most ravenous about learning about poetry, I read a number of very fine memoirs about poets. Eileen S...

THE other day I spoke to Joe Boyd, the Britfolk impresario, because of his new tribute record, Way to Blue . The album is in honor of Nick D...

ONE of our favorite debuts in recent years is Rachel Kushner's Telex From Cuba . I was aware of this novel only because of a tip from Ne...

SALON is running a series on labor unions in the 21st century. My contribution is a piece asking if struggling artists, musicians, authors, ...

WHEN people think about LA urbanism, they still invoke the same old cliches -- Woody Allen's line about the only "cultural advantag...

A SHORT, insightful new book about the making of the modern world – told in microcosm – has just come from the pen of a noted indie rocker. ...

THIS week on HBO, Americans can catch up with a literary adaptation that hit hard in the UK last year: Parade's End . Godlike playwright...