Patti Smith’s Just Kids was voted a best book of the 21st century. Her new memoir covers her whole life, charting deep love, ...

On a balmy summer evening, I approached a brownstone apartment in a leafy Chicago suburb and made a split-second decision that would change the direction of my life.

It’s one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

'Amazing Grace' as it appears in Ginny Hawker's family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...

Dear Eric: I’m in my 60s and have a crippling disease that kept me housebound for nearly five years. Asking Eric: If I suggest a hotel, they’ll be offended, but I can’t deal with them in my home ...

Michel Illouz, the father of slain hostage Guy Illouz, whose body was returned from Gaza earlier this week for burial in his hometown of Ra’anana this afternoon, eulogizes his eldest child after two ...

Some people think they won’t live long enough to collect Social Security. That should be the least of their worries. I am 66 and working full time. I’d rather be retired. I did retire at 61, in ...

Sitting alone in my flat in Newcastle, inhaling cocaine and knocking back brandy, I realised that the breaking news on the TV blaring in the background was happening right on my doorstep. It was July ...

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