Feel-Ins, Know-Ins, Be-Ins | The New York Review

A newly reissued recording proves that the late saxophonist Pharoah Sanders could get the grandest of effects from the humblest of riffs.

Ben Lerner’s Long Search for Contact | The New Yorker

In “The Lights,” the writer flickers between prose and verse, life and fiction, and the earthly and the alien, hoping to bring each closer to the other.

The Invention of a Neighborhood | Jonathan Lethem on Boerum Hill, Brooklyn for The New Yorker

Jaimie Branch Adds to a Brilliant Legacy With Fly or Die’s Final LP | The New York Times

Fassbinder’s World: A Refuge for Outcasts:
Rethinking the German filmmaker’s vast body of work while reading a new book about him. | The New York Times

A Music Podcast Unlike Any Other | The New Yorker

Put simply, Hickey has selected five hundred songs that he thinks delineate the history of what came to be called rock and roll, and he is devoting an episode to each.

The Unapologetic Brilliance of Sinéad O’Connor | The New Yorker

This, I think, is what O’Connor always wanted: anguish, laid bare. And then a gorgeous moment of communion, a weight lifted, a reminder that we do not have to be alone in our despair.

An Ensemble of One | The New York Review

Abdul Wadud’s intelligence and stylistic flexibility, displayed to such great effect on By Myself, are the qualities that made him a treasured accompanist to so many leading creative musicians.