Michael Jackson carried urban America and eventually American society on his vocal cords for a good 25 to 30 years before even hip-hop became the vox... →
Michael Eric Dyson
George Bush ran a campaign where he bragged about being an anti-intellectual, dismissing his Harvard and Yale pedigree, pretending he was an American... →
Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which... →
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been... →
Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
Janine di Giovanni
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much... →
To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's... →
I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way of life was... →
For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and... →
Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of... →
Paz de la Huerta