The early death of BUDDY HOLLY (1936-59) transformed him into an icon of the Boomers’ Happy Days-esque vision of American life in the 1950s,...

The precise definition of “New Weird” (a recent avant-garde literary movement seeking to update a moribund Fantasy/SF genre) remains elusive, but the works of...

If FREDDIE MERCURY (Farrokh Bulsara, born 1946) had been born a century earlier, audiences would have flocked to see him hit high Cs at...

Why we're trained to scorn highbrows

In his error, performance art was born.

Most of my favorite campus novels — from Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe and Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim to, say, Don DeLillo’s White...

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.

We’ve been reading news today about music composed for monkeys. Most animals don’t respond to music. But is that because music per se is...