The Carly Simon song Coming Around Again figures significantly in the film. I was a huge fan when it came out. Now, Alanis Morissette and Carly Simon have teamed up on a duet, with Morissette taking ...

I first discovered Gillian Welch in 2011 in a record store in Sweden . Her recent Tiny Desk concert, with David Rawlings, reminded me of how much I like her music. Lines and paragraphs break ...

The low mood works like a bad hallucinogen that turns your personal world into its dark, anemic twin, a landscape drained of good possibilities.

Efficiency emerges from keeping the personal separate from the professional. India operates differently. Here, the individual isn’t an atom; they’re a node in an interconnected web of relationships - ...

Nichols and May began their life together with an improvisation. It was a performance designed solely for their private entertainment, though it may well have also entertained, or astounded, a number ...

Danny Gregory writes about the events that befall us, and the marks they leave: Each of mine began as a kind of catastrophe — a crash, a fall, a diagnosis, a shock whenever I bit down hard. Each felt, ...

Of course the greatest thing that doesn’t suck is the support of those that love me: I have no idea how I do all this without them.

I can relate so much to this feeling that we are in the end who we are, that there seems to be a certain essence in us that we must allow to guide us through life. If we defy this compass, we can end ...

Christie George in The Emergency was Curiosity, channelling Jenni Odell in How to Do Nothing: ...

What’s missing in Hall’s essay is that it’s not enough to just break orbit from the mundane-but-survivable, because if that’s all you do, then there’s a danger of defining yourself as what you’re not ...

Here’s a list of some things that suck about recovering from elbow surgery: Constant vigilance about where I am, where my arm ...

As I write, I’m at the head end of my first overnight stay in a hospital ever. Not bad for being 59 years old. I got the call from surgery scheduling at 12 noon: we were a “go” for arriving at the ...