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Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is a new and dynamic poetic voice from Poland, with six volumes of poetry and several translations on the way, as well as the vocalist of the psychedelic [...]

Norman Erikson Pasaribu's first collection of short stories, Happy Stories, Mostly, was longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize and published, in Tiffany Tsao's English translation, in the US by [...]

TOSH I: ... my Mother [Bernice Johnson Reagon] sings a song called River of Life, [singing] 'there's a river somewhere, it flows through life with everyone, and it flows through [...]

Emeritus Professor J.H. Kwabena Nketia is a world-renowned ethnomusicologist and composer. Whilst researching traditional Ghanaian oral literature and music at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of [...]

Agustín del Moral Tejeda was born in Las Choapas, Veracruz, in 1956. An accomplished writer, journalist, editor, translator, and activist, he currently lives and works in Xalapa at the University [...]

At the age of nine, a boy named Marc-André Hamelin arrived at Montreal's École Vincent-d'Indy, to study piano with Yvonne Hubert-the esteemed pedagogue who also taught Louis Lortie, André Laplante, [...]

When I first started Dana Spiotta's new novel, Stone Arabia, it called to mind Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street, another exploration of rock and roll--its fascination, its inarticulate articulateness, its [...]

David Murray and Ishmael Reed have been collaborators since 1983, when David Murray, Taj Mahal, Steve Lacy, Allen Toussaint, Carman Moore and Carla Bley set Reed's songs and poetry to [...]

Music to me is dearer even than speech. VIKRAM SETH author's note to An Equal Music T he Indian writer Vikram Seth is one of my favourites, because he loves [...]

Walter Homburger was born into a musical family in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1924, and immigrated to Canada in 1940, via England. Six years after his arrival in this country, he [...]

Well over an hour has passed, and Hewitt is already at the final Variation, the Quodlibet--uproarious and jokey, raunchy even, with its echoes of peasant songs and sex. The last [...]

What recent book has captured your interest? I just started reading Ocean Vuong's love letter to his mother, On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous. What poetry. With whatever Vuong writes, I [...]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Two Dollar Radio, 2017) Erica Dawson, When Rap Spoke Straight to God: A Poem (Tin House, 2018) Virginie Despentes, [...]

ON APRIL 21, 2016, a chain-link fence in a Minneapolis suburb became a monument. At Paisley Park in Chanhassen, purple flowers and balloons, stuffed animals, handwritten signs, and other tributes [...]

That the ears might hear what the eyes can't see.--Monchoachi From vinyl collections to mixtapes to digital playlists, music aficionados have always curated their favorites alongside bookshelves of beloved verse, [...]

'We now have democracy. All we need are some democrats.' This statement, by Czechoslovakian President Tomá Masaryk, ushered in an interwar era that would end in terrible sacrifice for those [...]

Summer Solstice, 2013: Berlin. It is a perfect midsummer night's eve, not a cloud in the blue sky at 8:00 p.m. Today is also the Fete de la Musique, an [...]