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When the New Wave Was New, and Other News
Nadja Tesich in Nadja à Paris, 1964. About a decade ago, Jonathan Gottschall pioneered “literary Darwinism,” a school of thought that interprets literature through the prism of evolutionary desires. By...
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Silly Love Songs, and Other News
Frans Hals, Buffoon playing a lute (detail), 1623.George Plimpton, our founding editor, held the unofficial title of fireworks commissioner of New York City for some thirty years, but he hosted the...
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Silly Love Songs
Man. Car. Love.I was asked recently to write about my favorite love song, and I debated what to say. It wasn’t that I didn’t know which song to pick. I did. But I knew it was a weird choice.There are...
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When the New Wave Was New, and Other News
Nadja Tesich in Nadja à Paris, 1964. About a decade ago, Jonathan Gottschall pioneered “literary Darwinism,” a school of thought that interprets literature through the prism of evolutionary desires. By...
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Silly Love Songs, and Other News
Frans Hals, Buffoon playing a lute (detail), 1623. George Plimpton, our founding editor, held the unofficial title of fireworks commissioner of New York City for some thirty years, but he hosted the...
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Silly Love Songs
Man. Car. Love. I was asked recently to write about my favorite love song, and I debated what to say. It wasn’t that I didn’t know which song to pick. I did. But I knew it was a weird choice. There are...
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Love Songs: “Mississippi”
Bob Dylan. Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CCO 2.0. This week, the Review is publishing a series of short reflections on love songs, broadly defined. Someone once accused me of being unrealistic...
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Love Songs: “Water Sign”
Mosaic in Maltezana. Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CCO 3.0. This week, the Review is publishing a series of short reflections on love songs, broadly defined. Parliament’s “(You’re a Fish and I’m...
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Love Songs: “Someone Great”
LCD Soundsytem in Chicago, 2017. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 2.0. This week, the Review is publishing a series of short reflections on love songs, broadly defined. Out of nowhere, like an...
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Love Songs: “Being in Love”
Jason Molina. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 2.0. I am not a terribly romantic person. An ex once described me as “stable,” which is hardly the most erotic quality. It’s not that I’m unfeeling,...
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Love Songs: “I’m Your Man”
Leonard Cohen, 2008. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 2.0. This week, the Review is publishing a series of short reflections on love songs, broadly defined. The other night I streamed Hallelujah:...
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Love Songs: “Up in Hudson”
Hudson, New York. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 3.0. There was a month in spring several years ago when I rode Amtrak ten times in two weeks, taking the 7:05 A.M. out of Boston Back Bay and...
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Love Songs: “Hang With Me”
Robyn. Photograph by Lewis Chaplin. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 2.0. This week, the Review is publishing a series of short reflections on love songs, broadly defined. Someone I recently...
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Love Songs: “I Want to Be Your Man”
Talk box. Photograph by Carl Lender. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 2.0. This week, the Review is publishing a series of short reflections on love songs, broadly defined. I liked spending...
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Love Songs: “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”
David Byrne, 1978. Photograph by Michael Markos. Wikimedia Commons, Licensed under CCO 2.0. This week, the Review is publishing a series of short reflections on love songs, broadly defined. I think...
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Love Songs: “You Don’t Know What Love Is”
Nina Simone, 1967. Wikimedia Commons. This week, the Review is publishing a series of short reflections on love songs, broadly defined. There was a woman who was always explaining to me the structures...
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