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 Music , by Henry […]
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, a critical ally of […]
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 run. RELATED: 10 Ways […]
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 follows such a recognizable […]
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 get why we still […]
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 or daughter conceived to […]
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 , and Sapogonia , […]
