“In 1947,” writes Michael Chabon in his 2016 family memoir Moonglow, “there was, to my grandfather, one reason to call oneself a Jew, to go on being Jewish before the world: as a way of telling Hitler, ‘F**k you.’” Doni […]
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There’s no better distillation of Jewish American identity couched in Southern culture than a 30-minute yarn seesawing between humor, horror, and rage relating to the ways the region’s legendary hospitality clangs with Jewish custom. For most Jews, “hostility” is the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Amythyst Kiah is No Depression‘s Spotlight artist for June 2021. Read more about Kiah and her new album, Wary + Strange (out June 18), all month long. Most of us struggling with demons tend to call […]
If you’re sick of hearing the phrase “new normal” batted around like a squash ball by media outlets, you’re in good company with Rod Abernethy. On his new album, Normal Isn’t Normal Anymore, produced by Neilson Hubbard, the Raleigh songwriter […]
America’s in a bad place, given the ever-increasing pile-on of horrors and tragedies weighing on its conscience: the unabated COVID-19 pandemic, near daily bursts of fatal police violence inflicted on Black Americans, a sustained series of wildfires currently consuming […]
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