It’s not hyperbole to say that every music lover should own a copy of The Beach Boys’ masterwork Pet Sounds. And with the ...

Planning Primavera Sound is a herculean feat any year, but it was especially daunting in 2026. The festival — which welcomed around 287,000 festivagoers this year to Barcelona’s Parc del Fòrum, ...

Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek’s “Found Sound” and Aida Salazar’s “Stream” send their protagonists on a listening (and healing) tour of real life. By Jennifer Howard Jennifer Howard is a writer and ...

The Yoshi series is one of those rare Nintendo franchises that’s never quite surpassed its original 1995 outing on the SNES. Based on early reviews, it doesn’t sound like Yoshi and the Mysterious Book ...

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Brian Anderson’s ‘Loud and Clear’ captures the strenuous work, psychedelic vision and lasting influence of the band’s most audacious sound-system experiment. By Noah Eckstein When journalist Brian ...

Alan Niven considers his career in music to be “utterly extraordinary, and entirely accidental.” And that may even be an understatement. The New Zealand-born, England-raised Niven has been an artist ...

‘Music is feeling, then, not sound,” Wallace Stevens mused in his poem “Peter Quince at the Clavier.” When I taught a class in arts journalism, I used to ask my first-day students to walk onto the ...

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...

Books are a gift, opening a door to the wide world. But not if you live in one of the U.S. communities where local school boards or state officials have cast certain books as scary monsters that harm ...

What makes a book so great? It’s not necessarily only about the quality of the writing but also the ability to change discourse, start meaningful conversations that last for years, and inspire action.