US singer Taylor Swift is to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift will be honoured alongside other musicians including Alanis Morissette, Kenny Loggins, and Paul Stanley and Gene ...

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Despite the book’s sprawl, Marx offers a straightforward thesis: Culture, once the purview of innovators who pushed society forward with their insight, transgression, and innovation, now serves ...

In his new book, “Blank Space” — one of Book World’s 50 notable nonfiction books of 2025 — the critic and historian W. David Marx argues that the last quarter-century has been marked by the dramatic ...

W. David Marx’s doomscroll through 21st century pop culture, “Blank Space,” is largely a catalog of cringe. Kardashians keep barging in, joined by Paris Hilton, Milo Yiannopoulos, MAGA-hatted trolls, ...

The phrase “time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic postpandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s ...

The phrase “Time is a flat circle” often refers to how the manic post-pandemic news cycle makes comprehension of the recent past impossible. A similarly dazed bafflement is explored in W. David Marx’s ...

As reading declines, fragments of the literary past float to the cultural surface like corpses after a shipwreck. Complex thought survives in a motto: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ...

ROCHESTER — When his Anderson Piano Academy outgrew Chris Anderson’s northwest Rochester home, he decided to purchase a business condo to give his students and teacher more room to tickle the ivories.

At the Natick Mall in Massachusetts, among luxury clothing retailers Tory Burch and Louis Vuitton, stands two large glass displays filled with artwork and a colorful sign reading "Buy Art." Inside the ...

Twenty-five years into the 21st century, culture is markedly different than it was in the previous millennium. Everyday life has never contained more stuff—an endless reel of words, ideas, games, ...

Watch as a simple block of wood transforms into an exquisite piano box. From careful turning to the final reveal, see the craftsmanship and precision that bring this creation to life. Trump’s Remarks ...