Parting Words: Saul Bellow
Aug 17th, 2008 · Host Andrea Seabrook shares parting words from novelist Saul Bellow: "Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."
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Nas' Unapologetic, Untitled Return To Form
Jul 15th, 2008 · The hip-hop icon from Queensbridge has put out a conceptually brave album that works as a love letter to black America and a reclamation of a racial slur. Despite sampling himself, Biggie, and Tupac, Nas makes his untitled new album an unapologetic work of art about black American culture.
Breaking Free of Nostalgia's Tyrannical Grip *
Aug 1st, 2006 · "Skip to the End," in which a protagonist wishes he could fast-forward from the beginning of a relationship to the end before getting involved, is an ode to both longing and laziness, bolstered by an addictive "na na na na" chorus and The Futureheads' trademark harmonies.
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