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In the early months of 1973, the band that dared to call itself Big Star was anything but. The album of glittering, tightly ...

Radical revisionism is a strong contender for the theme of this disruptive year, in which some unique property of political ...

The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it ...

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The history of recorded music is now at our fingertips. But the streamer’s algorithmic skill at giving us what we like may ...