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Bob Dylan: Advent songwriter?

Paul Wheatley - December 19, 2017

The central theme of “When He Returns” is not the dynamics of personal conversion, but the cosmic scale of the divine last word.

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Eclipsing the heavens

Zachary Guiliano - August 26, 2017

We live in an age of diminished faith, and of dead, eclipsed gods.

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The all-important question: Sufjan’s ‘Wasp of the Palisades’

Sam Keyes - February 17, 2017

I remember listening to this song for the first time and thinking, Wait, is this gay? The kiss, the insistent “we were in love” refrain … but surely not.

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Sufjan blessed my year

Andrew Petiprin - December 31, 2015

I was a big Sufjan fan about ten years ago, but I forgot about him for a while. I was called back to my senses with the release of Carrie and Lowell.

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