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Reading the late Tyrone Williams’s last book, befittingly released by his alma mater, is to be caught up in a bittersweet moment which pulses both with loss and pleasure at rediscovering this poet’s immense power to summon the sounds of his culture. We do well to stow away umbrellas, rain boots, thunder coats and instead let the lyric make direct contact at the throat, ribcage and imprint its music as it rises, spills and slides between word and thing. It pours! It writes! “splash...

Spell Blanket comprises songs and sketches drawn from Trish Keenan's extensive archive of 4-track tapes and MiniDiscs.

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Welcome to the tenth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip and Scott Dransfield both helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 11 this week, narrowed down from the 16 songs we seriously considered.

The modernist author was born 150 years ago but her writing still feels transgressive – here are some good places to begin

Lucy Ansell finds traces of a forgotten art form in college formals and instagram brunches

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

David Platzer on “Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso: The Invention of Language,” at Musée du Luxembourg, Paris.

Banned Books Week begins on Sunday, and the city’s library systems are mobilizing to support the freedom to read.

Glances over the shoulder, a Central Park proposal and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.