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We like the idea of nice things, but not the expense, inconvenience and obligation that come with keeping them. Then we are genuinely surprised when...
In her remarkable first collection of short fiction, Little Rock writer Hope Coulter considers the stories people inherit, the ones they invent and...
When I was 7, my father gave me a cut-down 7-iron and showed me how to wrap my hands around the hard leather grip and interlock the little finger of...
The Constitution of the United States of America may be the most enthusiastically defended unread document in history, aside from the terms-of-service...
Tasjan, who will play Little Rock's White Water Tavern on Thursday, has never seemed particularly interested in remaining inside whatever box the...
"Five Questions" is an invitation to an articulate person to think out loud. "Get Over It, Underdog," Nashville singer-songwriter and guitarist Aaron...
She calls it "light" Parkinson's.
Mark Lynas’ “Six Minutes to Winter” asks why we stopped worrying about nuclear war. Arkansans have particular reason to remember what can go wrong.
Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairy tale, screening Thursday at Little Rock’s CALS Ron Robinson Theater, has grown into an essential film of this...
There was a time when we thought we knew what an amateur is.
Artificial intelligence can give everyone a song. It might also eliminate the ordeal that gives music meaning.
It was 25 years ago today that Karen and I escaped from Canada.
The records considered here have little in common but persistence.
I dismissed the cheerful coach after 10 minutes. Nearly two seasons later, I understand that his kindness is not innocence but something fashioned...
I'm glad my 89-year-old mother doesn't have email.
A century after “The Castle” appeared, we live among chatbots, algorithms and institutions where everybody seems to have authority but nobody can...
At 4 p.m. on the afternoon of Sept. 6, 1901, the doors of the Temple of Music in Buffalo, N.Y., swung open and the public began filing past the...
After a lifetime spent arguing about movies, David Thomson wonders whether they deserved all that attention.
Streaming doesn’t just change what we watch. It changes what it means for television to have a season.
Dolly Parton died on Aug. 25. Six days later, Wendell Berry died.
Cotton Plant’s claim on Sister Rosetta Tharpe is not provincial homerism. She did not help invent this music despite coming from Cotton Plant. In an...
My wife grew up with the German proverb Eigenlob stinkt: Self-praise stinks.
In ‘Dèy,’ Edwidge Danticat turns away from the gunman and toward the survivor, tracing the quieter violence that begins after the shooting stops.
It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.
A newly discovered fishing-trip debate between Ted Williams and Bobby Doerr reveals the rarest kind of mastery: knowing how to do something and being...
On Aug. 29, 1966, the most famous band in the world walked away from touring. The Beatles had spent three years turning sports arenas and fairgrounds...
After surviving rockets, anvils and corporate erasure, the determined predator finally gets his day in court.
Three strikes and you're out: less a baseball rule than a cosmic inevitability, or so we pretend. The phrase long ago escaped the ballpark and now...
Two compelling new books — one about singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, the other about an unsolved double murder in Alaska — reckon with the...
Paul Greenberg, this newspaper's late legendary editorial page editor and columnist, understood an Arkansas summer is less a season than a...
Bryan Burrough strips the mythology from the men who made the West wild, while Donald ‘Skip’ Hays turns contemporary Arkansas politics into a...
The old cultural signals of aging are disappearing. Maybe the trick isn’t staying young but staying curious.
I'm far from a Luddite. I like having the accumulated knowledge of civilization in my pocket, even if it's mostly used to check the weather, being...
Four decades after ‘Less Than Zero,’ Bret Easton Ellis returns to the beautiful, numb Los Angeles teenagers who made his reputation. Ryan Murphy...
Recordings preserve musicians at a particular moment while allowing listeners to arrive whenever they please. John Coltrane’s first album as a...
Dave Marsh, who died Friday at 76, belonged to a generation of rock critics who believed records mattered enough to fight over with the moral...
Richard Russo’s “Under the Falls” turns his familiar territory of wounded men and declining towns into a brisk, dark literary thriller.
Until recently, Jason Arday was a professor of sociology of education at Cambridge University, where he was celebrated as its youngest Black...
Hollywood used to give us ballplayers, golfers, boxers and hockey goons. Since it won’t make those movies anymore, here are the sequels it owes us.
Jason A. Ney’s “Richard Fleischer: Journeyman” makes the case for a versatile director who spent his career in the shadow of his brilliant...
Anyone can accuse anyone of anything. We ought to admit that before the terrible details begin working on us and we find ourselves certain of things...
“Furious” is loosely based on Bob Rafelson’s entertaining 1987 thriller “Black Widow,” in which Debra Winger plays a federal investigator...
Last Wednesday morning my inbox looked like a graduate seminar in political prediction.
Ashley Kahn’s exhaustive new history revisits Paul Simon’s masterpiece, the South African musicians who made it possible and the controversy that...
We live near railroad tracks, not far from the Baring Cross Bridge over the Arkansas River. The first bridge at that location opened in 1873,...
In ‘The Amateur,’ Chris Bohjalian revisits ‘Lolita,’ the postwar American novel and the uneasy border between literary and popular fiction.
Matthew McConaughey will appear at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in a 3:30 p.m. conversation Aug. 14 with filmmaker Jeff Nichols before receiving...
Last week the Los Angeles Dodgers, having found the experience of winning back-to-back World Series insufficiently reassuring, acquired Tarik Skubal...
Apple Music, Netflix and Spotify have become astonishingly good at predicting what we’ll enjoy next. But recommendation isn’t the same thing as...
The question running through all three is not whether the music is "authentic" -- a word that usually conceals more than it reveals -- but whether the...
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