Readings

When the Gaias were murdered, Mississippi lost one of the finest guitarists in a generation and a well-loved daughter, sister and friend. Decades later, the slayings still haunt the Delta.

After years of being one of those people who used the term as a derogatory catch-all, I realized that music that falls under the label can, and often does, help me in unexpected ways.

After their peak in the 1980s and 1990s, material premiums have become an increasingly rare advertising tactic.

My hometown is famous for a hate crime, and ten years after that murder, it’s not clear much progress has been made.

Searching for empathy with those society deems unforgivable.

Like so many German Jews, my Nana's family was late to leave the country when Hitler came to power. They thought antisemitism was a relic of the past. 

The human body is a work of splendor and misery. 

Finding myself in a sport that always felt connected to my father's rage and regret.

On the shared origins of two seemingly incongruent disciplines and the language we use to explain our place in the universe.