ART AND ARTISTS

BOOK REVIEWS

Author Toni Morrison’s Passion for Historical Passion
Ben Okri’s Famished Road Leads to Great Adventures in Reading

Flannery O’Connor’s Legacy Part 2: A Writer’s Life and Times

Ilan Stavan on Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reading Rumi after 9/11

Unexpurgated Review of Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s Shadow of the Wind

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MUSIC SOOTHES THE SAVAGE BREAST

John Legend and the Roots Issue Major Wake-up Call

The Life, Times and Legacies of Lena Horne

Notable Women of the Past and Present: Abbey Lincoln

Notable Women of the Past and Present: Nina Simone

The Nujazz New Millennium Soul of Maxwell

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WRITING THE YEAR 2009 MICHAEL JACKSON LEGEND

Image still from the video-poem "Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael" by Aberjhani.

1) Work and Soul in Michael Jackson's This Is It (Special 4-part article series)
2) Sold-Out Michael Jackson Tickets and Yearning for Something More (article)
3) The World Lets Go While Holding on to Michael Jackson (article)
4) A Moonwalking Giant Lies Down to Rest (article)
5) Michael Jackson Legacies of a Globetrotting Moonwalking Philanthropist (article)
6) Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael  #1 and #2 (poems)
7) To Walk a Lifetime in Michael Jackson's Moccasins (blog)

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