Vietnam Changed the Way This Jazz Man Heard the World

Vietnam Changed the Way This Jazz Man Heard the World

Reading Time: 1 Min. Henry Threadgill’s memoir unfolds from his maddening wartime experience to his boundary-pushing musical career. Henry Threadgill in 1983.Credit…Anthony Barboza/Getty Images Published Updated May 18, 2023, 10:17 p.m. ET When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. EASILY SLIP INTO ANOTHER WORLD: A Life in […]

Gary Prado Salmón, Bolivian Captor of Che Guevara, Dies at 84

Gary Prado Salmón, Bolivian Captor of Che Guevara, Dies at 84

Reading Time: 1 Min. Gen. Gary Prado Salmón in 2007. Forty years earlier, his unit had been hunting the guerrillas for months when he received a tip from a farmer.Credit…Aizar Raldes/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Gen. Gary Prado Salmón, who as a Bolivian Army captain led the operation that captured the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara, […]

The 10 Longest-Running Spider-Man Writers

The 10 Longest-Running Spider-Man Writers

Reading Time: 1 Min. The Amazing Spider-Man continues to be one of the most well-known titles ever released by Marvel Comics , centered around the adventures of Peter Parker and his eponymous alter-ego. The series, which began publication in 1963, has been consistently popular since its inception, with almost no publishing breaks in its 60-year […]

Everyone Is Going Away: On Yuri Herrera’s “Ten Planets”

Everyone Is Going Away: On Yuri Herrera’s “Ten Planets”

Reading Time: 1 Min. SHORT STORIES are rarely cozy. They have no time to build lush settings for the reader to inhabit, or to weave complex connections between their characters, the kind that makes them feel familiar, predictable. Perhaps the most comfortable subspecies in this otherwise angular genre is the formulaic story: a tale that […]

“Fragments”

“Fragments”

Reading Time: 1 Min. fragments from a wedding ______________________________ & a funeral • my sister janice is getting married. she’s being passed around like she’s bread, & everyone’s butter, complimenting her hair, her make up, her dress: a pearl’s insides. she’s blow-fishing BIG with love— laughing HAHAHAHAHAHAHA—& you’re telling me you hate weddings. i don’t […]

You Never Know, You Might Learn Something

You Never Know, You Might Learn Something

Reading Time: 1 Min. John Gall What do these memoirs have in common? They contain subtle lessons in persistence, coping and, yes, cleanliness. Credit…John Gall Cassandra Jackson was in her 30s when she first encountered the expression “replacement child,” and it took her breath away. Coined by psychologists in the ’60s to describe a son […]

“Cuernavaca”

“Cuernavaca”

Reading Time: 1 Min. The following is from Ana Castillo’s Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home . Castillo is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator, and scholar. Born and raised in Chicago, her award winning, bestselling titles include the novels So Far from God, The Guardians, Peel My Love like an Onion […]

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