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The Secret Sound of Stax
The New Yorker - Burkhard Bilger
The rediscovery of demos performed by the songwriters of the legendary Memphis recording studio reveals a hidden history of soul. It wasn’t the singing; it was the song. When Deanie Parker hit her last high note in the studio, and the band’s final chord faded behind her, the producer gave her a …
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Kim Petras Wants to Be a Superstar
The New Yorker - Kelefa Sanneh
The singer has dreamed of pop ubiquity since she was a teen-ager. After a No. 1 hit, “Unholy,” she is under pressure to do it again. Most people who listen to popular music don’t spend much time reading the credits. So producers who want to make sure their work is recognized occasionally mark their …
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The Trials and Triumphs of Writing While Woman
The New Yorker - Lauren Michele Jackson
From Mary Wollstonecraft to Toni Morrison, getting a start meant starting over. When the critic Joanna Biggs was thirty-two, her mother, still in her fifties, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. “Everything wobbled,” she recalls. Biggs was married but not sure she wanted to be, suddenly distrustful of …
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Coyotes by the Eliot House
The New Yorker - Glyn Maxwell
“Tom I’ve a question and all I have is a question.” Tom I’ve a question and all I have is a question. There are lots of coyotes near this old house you lived in. I didn’t expect them here in the green Northeast. Figured them things of rocks and the high sierras. There goes another one bounding for the …
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What Is the Smell of a Circle?
The New Yorker - Paisley Rekdal
“How much more pain / were we willing to endure to prove / we loved each other?” Breast milk, yes, and tomato soup, fresh algae blooming on the pond with one carp quickening its surface. The egg- colored rug on which snow slowly melted from our boots. I remember the slowness of the hour in which we …
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Briefly Noted
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Short reviews of recent releases. The Plot to Save South Africa, by Justice Malala (Simon & Schuster). On Easter weekend, 1993, Chris Hani—an A.N.C. commander seen as Nelson Mandela’s likely successor—was assassinated by two white nationalists. Protests and violence followed, threatening to derail …