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But what a wonderful result.

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Ideally, the net effect will get readers to think in a way they havent before.

Publications go out of business in the current media environment so frequently that it hardly registers.

But whenCokemachineglow a most unruly and writerly music website ceased publication, people felt it.

Cokemachineglow: Writing Around Music 2005-2015, Clayton Purdom

It brilliantly captures the sense of discovery, obsessiveness, and vitriol that drives the best music criticism.

Apertures reissue of this classic photojournalism survey is both a revelation and a scourge.

Point to a historical trauma and aesthetic shifts are not far behind.

House of Bondage by Ernest Cole

Its fitting that, by the time she does, she barely recognizes herself.

Cleverness aside, the book is more about existential crisis than intertextual games.

But even her darkest thoughts are studded by gloriously repetitive affirmations.

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Super Sad Black Girl, Diamond Sharp