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
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
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)