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Aretha Franklin, a pillar of postwar American music, passed away Thursday morning, at seventy-six. A few hours later, the artist Kadir Nelson sent a sketch to The New Yorker. “I wanted to draw her in a choir,” he said. “She…
Few great works of literature get any advertising at all, but Marguerite Duras’s “La Douleur” (literally, “Pain”), from 1985, which was drawn largely from her own Second World War experiences, has received what is, in effect, a feature-length commercial—an adaptation…
In March of 1971, Aretha Franklin was twenty-eight years old and the undisputed Queen of Soul. She’d had so many gold records over the previous four years that a new category of Grammy had been invented for her. But she…
Roma’s social media team made reference to the Malcom saga in hilarious fashion when they announced the arrival of new signing Steven Nzonzi. The France midfielder joins Roma from Sevilla, and after the Serie A side thought they had agreed…
Former Celtic striker Chris Sutton led the criticism as the Scottish giants failed to reach the Champions League group stage. The Hoops fell to AEK Athens in the third qualifying round as they attempted to book a place in the…
2016 was the worst year for drug overdose deaths in America — at least, until 2017 came along. According to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 72,000 people in the US are predicted to…
