Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday’s 1956 album “Lady Sings the Blues.”

This Woman’s Work: Billie Holiday’s ‘Lady Sings the Blues’

This Woman's Work

How the legendary jazz singer transformed pain into art on her 1956 album.

Edward Albee on Samuel Beckett<br>Sharon Olds on John Donne<br>Branford Marsalis on Billie Holiday

Arts, Culture & Media

Lost Jazz Finds a Home in Harlem

Arts, Culture & Media

Cassandra Wilson Sings One Last Song for Lady Day

Arts, Culture & Media
Hungarian Noir

It’s this nation’s most popular song. It also may be haunted.

Music
The World

Maya Angelou was a poet and activist, but she got her start as a Calypso star

Poet and activist Maya Angelou died on Wednesday. She was 86-years-old. But before she was a famous author she had a career as a Calypso singer.

The World

Maya Angelou was a poet and activist, but she got her start as a Calypso star

Poet and activist Maya Angelou died on Wednesday. She was 86-years-old. But before she was a famous author she had a career as a Calypso singer.

Hungarian surf rock band breaks new ground in nation’s music scene

Arts, Culture & Media

Hungary’s not a country you associate with coast lines. And for good reason. It’s land-locked. But a new surf rock band is bringing a new type of sound to the country’s culture — and it’s decidedly less dreary than usual.

What should everyone know about history?

Global Politics

Americans don’t know enough about their own histories. Experts weigh in on what they should know and why.

What’s on Marianne Faithfull’s iPod

Arts, Culture & Media

Sixties icon Marianne Faithfull on her new covers album, what’s on her iPod and the music she calls the soundtrack of her life.