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On Being a Poor Black Punk and Working at the Strand Bookstore

On Being a Poor Black Punk and Working at the Strand Bookstore

Patrick Dougher Shares a Post-Punk NYC Bildungsroman

By Patrick Dougher | May 9, 2025

Punk, Poet, Prophet: In Praise of the Late, Great Shane MacGowan

Punk, Poet, Prophet: In Praise of the Late, Great Shane MacGowan

Ed Simon on One of Music’s Great Lyricists

By Ed Simon | March 17, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

Literary Loops: Mariah Stovall on the Role of Repetition in Music and Fiction

Literary Loops: Mariah Stovall on the Role of Repetition in Music and Fiction

“I realized music could show me how to balance consistency and novelty.”

By Mariah Stovall | February 13, 2024

RIP Shane MacGowan: 7 Pogues Songs That Would Make Great Short Stories

RIP Shane MacGowan: 7 Pogues Songs That Would Make Great Short Stories

Farewell to a True Legend

By Jonny Diamond | December 1, 2023

How I Created Community With a Ramones Fan Club

How I Created Community With a Ramones Fan Club

Kid Congo Powers on the Smartest, Dumbest Rock ’n’ Roll Band There Ever Was

By Kid Congo Powers | October 20, 2022

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Read These If You Aren’t A Poseur: Books That Embody The Punk Ethos

By Tea Hacic-Vlahovic | September 23, 2022

Lurid, Offensive, Troublesome: On the Rise of “Underground Comix”

By Brian Doherty | June 15, 2022

Rachel Kushner on One of America’s Great Unsung Punk Albums

By Rachel Kushner | August 5, 2021

In Praise of Famous Losers: On Kurt Cobain, Beck, and the Idols Who Mythologized a Subculture

In Praise of Famous Losers: On Kurt Cobain, Beck, and the Idols Who Mythologized a Subculture

Benjamin Villegas Remembers the Antiestablishment Allure of the 90s

By Benjamin Villegas | June 30, 2021

Celia C. Peréz on Creating the Zines She Couldn’t Find in the 90s

Celia C. Peréz on Creating the Zines She Couldn’t Find in the 90s

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By NewberyTart | May 6, 2021

When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

When I Lived Across the Hall From Sid Vicious

Donna Florio Remembers Just Another Day on Manhattan's Bank Street

By Donna Florio | March 9, 2021

Assimilation and 80s Punk Culture in Small-Town Pennsylvania

Assimilation and 80s Punk Culture in Small-Town Pennsylvania

Phuc Tran on What Helped Him Survive Isolation

By Phuc Tran | April 22, 2020

Ray Bradbury Understood the Narrative Power of Tattoos

Ray Bradbury Understood the Narrative Power of Tattoos

Anna Felicity Friedman on Body Art

By Anna Felicity Friedman | March 20, 2020

How the First Punk in East Berlin Became an Enemy of the State

How the First Punk in East Berlin Became an Enemy of the State

Tim Mohr on the Teenage Girl Who Loved the Sex Pistols and Hated the Government

By Tim Mohr | September 12, 2018

13 Punk (as Fuck) Writers You Should Know

13 Punk (as Fuck) Writers You Should Know

Leather Jackets and Leather-Bound Journals

By Emily Temple | August 1, 2018

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