I used to think I needed complete silence to read. Like, vacuum-sealed, monastery-level silence. Any noise was enough to derail me. I’d reread the same paragraph five times, then give up and do something else.Then I discovered ambient music for reading.It started with a Spotify playlist I put on while rereading a novel late one…
It was well into adulthood before I started reading much Japanese literature. Haruki Murakami and Kazuo Ishiguro were the only ones I had read, and while both are infused with Japanese sensibility, they’re also a bit more international than most other Japanese authors. When I finally decided to follow some recommendations I’d seen for the…
If you’re drawn to Kendrick not only for the music but for the ambition, the message, the art, then you’ll find something just as gripping in these artists from outside hip-hop. Here are five artists whose work resonates with Kendrick’s themes and artistic ambition. All of them are builders, each creating complex, emotionally dense bodies of work.