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Herb Snitzer / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty The Prowess of Nina Simone’s Early Records
What the artist's early singles—made before she was famous, and newly released—reveal about the legend she'd become
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Katja Bohm / Katie Martin / The Atlantic How Sci-Fi Writers Imagine Iraq’s Future
In a new speculative-fiction anthology series, Iraqi authors consider their country’s tumultuous present as they envision how it could look in the year 2103.
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Steve Hengstler / Katie Martin / The Atlantic Remembering Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart
The musician, who died in September at age 56, helped influence alt-rock giants like Nirvana—but didn’t see the appreciation he deserved in his lifetime.
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Katie Posner Writing in Someone Else’s World
I stumbled on a high-pay, low-prestige way to enter the publishing world—and overcame my reservations to make the most of the opportunity.
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Marc Mueller / AP Nick Cave Is Still Looking for Redemption
The musician's new compilation album Lovely Creatures reveals a longstanding fascination with fables of doom and salvation.
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Frederic Meylan / Getty David Bowie’s 1987 Slump Held Its Own Weird Magic
His much-maligned album Never Let Me Down and the dazzling Glass Spider Tour it spawned were the work of a veteran artist in the throes of metamorphosis.
