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Myth. Memory. Power: Music, culture, and the stories history tried to erase.

Newsletter · By Jennifer Otter Bickerdike · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 16, 2026

    Jenny Lind and the Business of Wanting (opens the original)

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    I was sitting around the other day contemplating which of my organs I could reasonably harvest for the black market to pay for my possible entry into the Oasis ticket lottery when I had to stop and ask myself: why do I want to go so badly?Is it nostalgia? Absolutely. Is it my deep-seated obsession with Manchester, which by this point has seeped so far into my marrow that it probably qualifies as a medical condition? Definitely. Is it my infinite love of the catalogue? Of course.<p class="cta-cap

  2. Issue · Jul 22, 2026

    The Black Swan (opens the original)

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    For Max.It was a different station tonight. A fire at my usual stop had rerouted everyone, depositing us somewhere I’d only ever passed through.The last light lingered in the sky, but it wasn’t the sunset that stopped me.It was the air.It wrapped itself around me the moment I stepped onto the platform—thick, heavy and almost oppressive, still holding the day’s heat. The scent of warm hay and sun-baked earth hung in the darkness, so heady it was almost intoxicating.Before I’d even reached my car,

  3. Issue · Jul 17, 2026

    One of Us: A Lost Boys Festival (opens the original)

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    I know, I know... you’ve heard it a zillion million times: “Santa Cruz is the best place in the universe.” Blah, blah, blah.But it really is true.<div class="c

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