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January 12, 2024

January 11, 2024

Reveling in the Deftones catalog, and taking a path straight to Stax Records soul.

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January 5, 2024

January 4, 2024

Staying with The Hotelier, and making the best of it alongside Kay Ryan.

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December 22, 2023

December 21, 2023

Hiss Golden Messenger is faithful to the holidays, and Giant Sand sounds desert transmissions.

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@valentinantonini

My favorite books of 2023 [Part 3, fiction]

December 19, 2023

Quiet, neighborly stories, sprawling climate-change epics and more count among my favorite novels of the year.

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December 15, 2023

December 14, 2023

Hotline TNT executes a near-perfect ‘Cartwheel’ and readers come as they are to Nirvana (again).

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@nusaseom

My favorite books of 2023 [Part 2, poetry]

December 10, 2023

Part 2 of my gaze back at a personal year in books honors the true lights of every year: the poets.

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December 8, 2023

December 7, 2023

Going deep with Peter Gabriel and hopping the ‘Eastbound’ train in a 2023 novel.

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Janko Ferlič / @itfeelslikefilm

My favorite books of 2023 [Part 1, nonfiction]

December 3, 2023

Part 1 of my look at this year’s favorite reads tracks down memoirs, personal histories, cultural analysis and much more.

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December 1, 2023

November 30, 2023

Cat Power plays Dylan, and Josh Radnor bares his musical wisdom.

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November 17, 2023

November 16, 2023

Boygenius make Saturday night their own, and Haruki Murakami introduces his ‘Sweetheart.’

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Aarik is a Midwestern journalist, essayist and poet whose writing exists at the four corners of literature, human dignity, pop culture and theology.


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