Best of Spring

“I was so goddamned defensive because people had always considered me a rather muscular mono-minded greasy-teeshirt slimy-type neighborhood guinea.”

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How the New Yorker’s poetry editor became our foremost chronicler of contemporary hokum

The four recently released singles from the upcoming album “Dirty Computer” indicate Janelle Monáe’s maturation as an artist

In a new performance piece, the musician and performer channels the contradictions of the South Asian psyche

How three working-class lads from Edinburgh with nothing to lose made one of the year’s most exciting hip-hop albums

The legendary, shape-shifting singer and actress, who stars in a new documentary, divulges the lessons that have shaped her path

Musings from the global icon and re-minted Lancôme spokesperson about raising Americans, fortitude, and chickens

"It's a book you think you've read before, or a book you think you'll be bored by," says the author. "But it's neither.”

The legendary comedian recently released a new book, a collection of letters to his late mother