WALKING CONTRADICTION
Willie Nelson is still composing at a furious rate. In his autobiography, he recounts the circumstances, both musical and personal, that inspired 160 of his best-known songs.
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DARKER AND DARKER
The Pulitzer prize-winning author of “Blood Meridian,” “All the Pretty Horses,” and “The Road” went his own way, but was still very much in the American grain.
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ANTI-WOKE INQUISITION
I should know. I went to school there.
LET’S GET OUT OF HERE
In our yearly list of destinations we think our readers would enjoy in the coming year, we’ve got something for everybody.
Terrible Beauty
The Aran Islands guarding the mouth of Galway Bay may be small, but they possess an uncanny power to enchant visitors.
A LEGEND
The singer, songwriter and rock ‘n’ roll wild man died at his home near Memphis.
HORNY TOAD
In two very different books, Hilton Als and Nick Hornby tackle pop music’s most protean sexual avatar.
HARVEY’S HELPERS
In “Hollywood Ending,” New Yorker reporter Ken Auletta meticulously chronicles the rise and ignominious fall of Harvey Weinstein, and the culture that enabled him.
POETIC PEREGRINATIONS
It’s certainly the most famously walkable, thanks to James Joyce, and among the most hospitable.
R.I.P.
Before Liotta impressed people in “Goodfellas,” he upended Jonathan Demme’s screwball comedy “Something Wild” and scared the living hell out of everyone who saw it.