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Jesus died for somebody’s sins … but not hers

Almost at the beginning of Steven Sebring’s documentary “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” a film and art installation and photography book that have been 12 years in the making, we hear a narration from the eponymous rock goddess-poet, declaiming a…
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Patti Smith opens the final door of her life story

With “Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith has finally given readers the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Just Kids.” Unlike “M Train” (2015) and “Year of the Monkey” (2019), both of which mixed memoir with surrealism, “Bread of Angels” is presented as…
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Women didn’t ruin the workplace. Capitalism did

“Did women ruin the workplace? And can conservative feminism fix it?” asked the headline of a New York Times roundtable discussion/podcast that appeared late last week. Shortly afterward, the piece reappeared under a new title: “Did liberal feminism ruin the…
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Grimes ushers in a new era of internet infestation

Have you ever tricked yourself into seeing a non-existent cockroach in your kitchen? Your hand catches the light just so, casting a shadow into a seldom-examined corner. Something malicious and alive, an indicator of a deeper rot, has crept into…
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