Pages tagged “issue 36”

4 To Watch: Anat Cohen

Though she’s regarded as one of the most promising young horn players in New York, Anat Cohen was strictly a classically inclined clarinetist until she was 16...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

The Cult: Born Into This

It’s a “chicken or the egg” situation: Is The Cult easily manipulated...  read more

Found in: Music, Reviews

Philip Roth

Philip Roth is a Man of Letters—an acclaimed, revered novelist approaching 75 years...  read more

Found in: Books, Reviews

Mario Vargas Llosa

image not available

She has no name—at least not a reliable one. When Peruvian teenager Ricardo Somocurcio first encounters...  read more

Found in: Books, Reviews

George Carlin

Love him or hate him, George Carlin has a knack for getting under people’s skin. Since the ’60s, when he decided to forsake the comedic mainstream, he’s never looked back, and never shied from speaking his mind or using his chosen form of expression...  read more

Found in: Culture, Features

Iron & Wine

Guero’s Taco Bar in Austin, Texas, sits near the top of South Congress Avenue—a steep, buzzing thoroughfare that slouches casually toward downtown over the South Congress Avenue bridge (with its famous bat population) and resolves on the steps of the State Capital...  read more

Found in: Music, Features

Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog

Sam Beam is one of the most vital new American...  read more

Found in: Music, Reviews

Eastern Promises

David Cronenberg isn’t done writing his history of violence. Leaving a seemingly idyllic postcard Americana behind, the director found a different milieu for his latest film, Eastern Promises—a suspense-driven drama set in London’s once-obscure Russian underworld...  read more

Found in: Movies, Features

Manu Chao: La Radiolina

The granddaddy of Latin alternative delivers his hardest-hitting solo album to date...  read more

Found in: Music, Reviews

Billy Joe Shaver: Everybody's Brother

One of the original “Country Outlaws,” Shaver seems to have every experience of his storied life etched into his remarkable face...  read more

Found in: Music, Reviews