[ad_1] While Elvis Presley was an American icon, the rest of the world worshipped him too. But Presley never experienced that global adulation in person. His manager Colonel Tom Parker, born in the Netherlands and residing illegally in the U.S., did not have a passport, which ultimately kept Presley from taking his wildly successful touring… Continue reading Elvis Presley’s ‘Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite’ turns 50
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“Hangman” Turns the Novel of Migration Upside Down
[ad_1] A friend who migrated to the United States young once told me that her first and only return to her birth country ended with a bout of malaria. There was no revelatory homecoming; in lieu of self-knowledge came sickness, as though her origins were trying to spit her back out. Narrative is one of… Continue reading “Hangman” Turns the Novel of Migration Upside Down
Hip-Hop Turns Fifty | The New Yorker
[ad_1] Alex BaraschCulture editor Last week, like innumerable others who contributed to “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” ’s collective, astonishing one billion dollars and counting at the box office, I assembled a group of people brave—or foolhardy—enough to undertake the double feature. Several of them hadn’t known one another beforehand; afterward, as we discovered that we were… Continue reading Hip-Hop Turns Fifty | The New Yorker