Readings

Emmett Miller was a secret father of pop music—who happened to perform in blackface. Was he a monster, or a genius, or both, or neither? For his biographer, Nick Tosches, should it have mattered?

The legendary Chic guitarist’s recent Daft Punk-sparked moment in the spotlight is a fine reminder of just how soulful and human his music can be—even when he’s playing with robots.

Synesthetes are special individuals—just look at Nabokov or Billy Joel—but recent neuroscience shows that the ability to see letters or hear colours is not so removed from the way the rest of us perceive the world.

A Father’s Day reflection, one year after the accidental death of the author’s own father, on the things that gather and accumulate in his absence.