10+ hour, 12+ min ago   (32+ words) The NDE (near-death experience) of Naomi Schneeberger Naomi Schneeberger was twelve years old. And she …...

14+ hour, 13+ min ago   (484+ words) Which do you fear most? Failure or death? We spend most -if not all- our lives anxiously tracking the sweep of the second hand on the clock. Mornings welcomes us …...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (219+ words) Art critic, novelist, Marxist, lover, exile, storyteller: John Berger resisted every easy definition. His new biography embraces the contradictions he left behind. John Berger brought boundless charisma and radical politics to the history of art. (Leonardo Cendamo / Getty Images) Review…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1773+ words) Amelia McAlpin, left, and Marcia Biederman are seen during Biederman's visit to Ketchikan in 2022, when Sayers "Mike" McAlpin, Amelia's husband and a grandson of Agnes McAlpin, was still living. Image courtesy of Marcia Biederman An image of the postcard that…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (405+ words) Literary Hub This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell” The Most Notorious Party “Game” in Literary History On the afternoon of September 6, 1951, in a friend’s Mexico City apartment, a drunk…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (206+ words) Claudia Isaki’s San Francisco opens on syncopated guitar and a vintage Bacharach-like atmosphere that recalls Dionne Warwick’s “Walk On By.” The resemblance lasts only a few seconds. Drums enter, the pace quickens and the song moves into bright indie pop…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (623+ words) One of the perceived weaknesses of the album is actually its greatest strength, and that’s the fact that the amorphous nature of the album means you never know what might be around the corner. It does just feel a bit…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (426+ words) TheCollector What Made Robert Mapplethorpe Revolutionary? Robert Mapplethorpe: The Emergence of an Artist Shortly after dropping out of college, Robert met Patti Smith. This iconic personality in the punk rock scene first came to New York with dreams of being…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (502+ words) Mr Bergmann of Deadman’s Point The Wee Review A cold case with a warm and wounded heart Most of this story is fictional, but this much of it is true: in 2009 a mysterious man travelled to a small town in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (176+ words) Emily How at the Raccoon Motel -- September 5. Saturday, September 5, 6 p.m. Raccoon Motel, 315 East Second Street, Davenport IA With her 2022 EP Flight Behavior hailed by The Prospectus as "an experience that envelopes one within a fireball of emotion," Illinois-based singer/songwriter Emily…...