"Nothing cures like time and love," is a lyric from the Laura Nyro song that begins the new Diana Ross Motown Anthology, a two-disc collection of million-selling popular songs and unreleased songs.
Author Archives: Daniel Garrett
Lust and Strength: Learning to Love the Questions
An appreciation of the band Kitchens of Distinction
Lauryn Hill, Unplugged
"Every single song is about me first," says a plainly clothed Lauryn Hill to her audience, as recorded on her new Unplugged, a live acoustic performance broadcast by MTV.
Tupac Shakur, Until the End of Time
Tupac Shakur’s legacy of poetry, rap, passion, politics, and scatology continues with the recent release of Until the End of Time, a collection of raps originally recorded during his "Makaveli" period.
Show, Don’t Tell
Americans are like two-year olds—
dazzled—
by bright pictures
of apples, dollars, guns, cars,
breasts and testicles.
The Inner Life and the Social World in the Work of James Baldwin
What unified Baldwin’s vision and made him unique were his great intelligence and his great passion; they informed, reflected, and expressed each other.