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Oliver Barrett The Electric Surge of Miles Davis
Between 1968 and ’75, he plugged into the musical zeitgeist and opened his music to distortion and groove-based repetition, either transcending or repudiating his roots in acoustic jazz.
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Mike Roach / Zuffa / Getty The Rise and Fall of Ultimate Fighter Conor McGregor
A fantastically entertaining—and bankable—athlete shies away from the chance to reclaim MMA glory.
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André Carrilho The Greatest Poet Alive
The feral genius of Australia’s Les Murray
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Ian Wright The Resurrections of David Bowie
What made him one of rock’s most potent lyricists
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP Missing Jon Stewart
The new Daily Show host, Trevor Noah, is smooth and charming, but he hasn’t found his edge.
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R. Kikuo Johnson Marc Maron’s Brilliant Mistakes
The star podcaster’s success is rooted in his early-career failure and despair.
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Matt Taylor The Double Life of John le Carré
How a con-artist father and treason in MI6 created the bard of the Cold War
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Barry Blitt Twilight of the Headbangers
How long can the legends of heavy metal keep on rocking?
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Zohar Lazar How Naked People Took Over Reality Television
The curious boom of broadcasted genitalia
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Marc Burckhardt / The Atlantic How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Revived Modern Myth-Telling
Stories of the famous writers of Oxford
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John Ritter What Tween TV Teaches Kids
The insidious message of Disney and Nickelodeon
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Autumn Whitehurst Making Sense of Björk
What MoMA gets right and wrong in its controversial exhibition on the Icelandic pop icon
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André Carrilho Renata Adler: Troll or Treasure?
Weighing whether the writer is a real custodian of journalistic values or just an overqualified provocateur
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Daniel Adel A Most Unlikely Saint
The case for canonizing G. K. Chesterton, the bombastic man of letters and paradoxical militant for God
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Kristian Hammerstad Endless Love
A new book suggests that the love song has always been among the most revolutionary of musical forms.
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Frank Stockton Morality TV
The hidden-camera show What Would You Do? reveals the persistence of American decency.
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Denise Nestor The Last Rock-Star Poet
Dylan Thomas embodied the essence of poetry—even if his poems themselves have not held up well.
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Jimmy Turrell Death and Mrs. Doubtfire
The secret ingredient of Robin Williams’s greatest role: grief
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Diego Patino Naked on the Page
In her memoir, Lena Dunham, the creator of Girls, opens a new chapter in her campaign of self-exposure.
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Bruce Fleming / AP The History of Rock and Roll in 1 Song
In his new book, Greil Marcus brings us The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs. But rock only needs one—Jimi Hendrix's 1968 “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).”
