Velvet Underground
Lou’s Gift: The Magic of a Rock ’n’ Roll Poet
An encounter with legendary rock star Lou Reed, who died this weekend at 71
Lou Reed, 1942-2013: Baruch Dayan Emet
The Brooklyn-born punk star, writer, and poet altered the New York cultural landscape
How Delmore Schwartz Saved My Life
Or at least kept Lou Reed from punching me at a dinner party
Lou Reed’s Rabbi
The rock star’s new tribute to his teacher, the writer Delmore Schwartz, illuminates their common genius
Holy Trinity
How a Jew, a WASP, and a Catholic found the perfect religious balance and made the Velvet Underground one of the greatest rock bands in history
No Mr. Nice Guy: Lou Reed
On the late Lou Reed’s 69th birthday, Elizabeth Wurtzel explained that contrary to the assertions of Philip Roth and others, the problem with Jewish male artists is not that they are too nice
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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