Articles by tintinnabula
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Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut had something to say. We have it on tape (nytimes.com)

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The Beauty of Dissonance (plough.com)

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A mild mannered Englishman who was the most prolific ghost hunter (lithub.com)

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Art Must Act (aeon.co)

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D'Angelo's Genius Was Pure, and Rare (newyorker.com)

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The Heroic Remains of Homer's Odyssey (historytoday.com)

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Patagonian Welsh (wikipedia.org)

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With Strings Attached (reviewcanada.ca)

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Elephants Say They Like Them Apples (nytimes.com)

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The Atlantic's Expensive Hiring Spree (nymag.com)

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The Great Egg Heist (washingtonpost.com)

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Our languages have more in common than you might think (washingtonpost.com)

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The Sixties Come Back to Life in "Everything Is Now" (newyorker.com)

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What New Orleans Taught Me (commonedge.org)

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There's a Seeker Born Every Minute (2024) (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Trauma's New Look (thenation.com)

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Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind's Katzensymphonie (1868) (publicdomainreview.org)

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William Archibald Spooner (wikipedia.org)

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An Intimate Look at Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne's Papers (washingtonpost.com)

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The potency of jokes (insidestory.org.au)

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The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – 'It was like fresh air' (theguardian.com)

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"Have Quotes About Salieri" (contingentmagazine.org)

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A Hollywood Star with a Secret That Could Have Ended Her Career (nytimes.com)

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The Kings of College Radio: What happened when REM went mainstream (yalereview.org)

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Stares and ear-twitches: The linguist learning to speak the language of cows (bbc.com)

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Masters of Allusion: The Art of Poetic Reference (nytimes.com)

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Designing the Sublime Boullée and Ledoux's Architectural Revolution (publicdomainreview.org)

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What Dr. Ruth Left Behind (nytimes.com)

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Voices from the Dead Letter Office (harpers.org)

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Insects rely on sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide reproduction (nytimes.com)

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Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine (nytimes.com)

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'The Endless Refrain' asks: Do we even want new music anymore? (washingtonpost.com)

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A brief history of the word "fuck" (lithub.com)

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The Long Road to End Tuberculosis (asimov.press)

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The decline of the working musician (newyorker.com)

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The Lines, They Are A-Changin' (bookforum.com)

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Letters by Oliver Sacks review (theguardian.com)

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The Script Creator (aeon.co)

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Scientists working to decode birdsong (newyorker.com)

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Paul Rudolph Was an Architectural Star. Now He's a Cautionary Tale (nytimes.com)

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A camera in the East Village, capturing the now and the long ago (nytimes.com)

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Cissy Houston Saw Music's Peaks and Life's Valleys (nytimes.com)

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The Plan to Save Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Skyscraper Isn't Going as Planned (nytimes.com)

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FDA approves a novel drug for schizophrenia (washingtonpost.com)

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Money by David McWilliams review – the story of cold hard cash (theguardian.com)

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The Anti-Rock Star (theatlantic.com)

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Julia Child's Kitchens (placesjournal.org)

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I Am Herman Melville (lareviewofbooks.org)

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How Natural Are We? (newyorker.com)

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C L R James and America (aeon.co)

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'Tchaikovsky's Empire' Review: Echoes of an Imperial Composer (wsj.com)

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'The Avant-Gardists' Review: Russia's Visual Revolutionaries (wsj.com)

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A Nazi Villa So Tainted Berlin Can't Give It Away (nytimes.com)

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On the Record: Music before mass production (2018) (historytoday.com)

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The Composer Has No Clothes (thebaffler.com)

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Music and Mystery: Seamus Heaney and the end of the poetic career (harpers.org)

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Consummated in Exile (theamericanscholar.org)

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Vivian Maier, One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century (smithsonianmag.com)

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The Next New Thing: architecture's gulf between the traditional and the modern (theamericanscholar.org)

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The Sun Ra Arkestra's Maestro Hits One Hundred (newyorker.com)

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Dance, Revolution (thedriftmag.com)

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The Era of the Line Cook (newyorker.com)

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Eden Abhez: The strangest hit songwriter (honest-broker.com)

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Quieting the Global Growl (hakaimagazine.com)

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The Genius of Ella Fitzgerald (thenation.com)

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A Tale of Two Composers (hudsonreview.com)

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The old-fashioned library at the heart of the A.I. boom (nytimes.com)

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Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs (nytimes.com)

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The poetic science of how cicadas sing (themarginalian.org)

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Words with Friends: The eccentric volunteers who helped make the OED (commonwealmagazine.org)

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How did Ancient Greek music sound? (youtube.com)

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The Heart of Low (newyorker.com)

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What's Next for Music Criticism? (bostonreview.net)

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Racism and Science Fiction (1998) (nyrsf.com)

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A secret code may have been hiding in Beethoven's manuscripts (theatlantic.com)

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She slept with a violin on her pillow (nytimes.com)

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Original Pirate Material (historytoday.com)

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Batman: The Silent Motion Picture: A Silent Film Edit of Tim Burton's Batman (archive.org)

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Jazz Legend Is His Own Work in Progress (nytimes.com)

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How Arnold Schoenberg changed Hollywood (newyorker.com)

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An Ocean of Data (the-hinternet.com)

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'Lukewarm' and 'lukecool' (2021) (grammarphobia.com)

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Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue (esquire.com)

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Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis (theguardian.com)

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Freedom Furniture: How did Americans come to love "mid-century modern"? (thenation.com)

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Review of Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication (literaryreview.co.uk)

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The Potent Pollution of Noise (noemamag.com)

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The Homesick Composer (theamericanscholar.org)

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The new architecture wars (aeon.co)

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The Brilliant Discontents of Lou Reed (thenation.com)

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The Sonic Revolutions of George Lewis (newyorker.com)

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He spent his life building a $1M stereo (washingtonpost.com)

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How to Revive Wassailing (historytoday.com)

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A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic (allegralaboratory.net)

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Anselm's Ontological Argument: A Guide for the Perplexed (philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com...

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Joan Baez Looks Back (thenation.com)

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Terry Gross and the Art of Opening Up (2015) (nytimes.com)

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The Underwater Cabaret: A magazine made while hiding from the Nazis in an attic (nytimes.com)

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Where Johnny Cash came from (neh.gov)

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David Byrne Isn't Himself. Or Any Self (nytimes.com)