The children’s song "He Cares for Me" in the new hymnbook "was a contribution that I could make to the Lord even if nobody else saw it," said the author and composer, Kenneth S. Schank.

Nestled along a bustling stretch of Lee Highway in Arlington, Virginia, Metro 29 Diner stands as a gleaming monument to classic American dining, where breakfast reigns supreme and the Eggs Benedict ...

Patti Smith’s Just Kids was voted a best book of the 21st century. Her new memoir covers her whole life, charting deep love, ...

Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is more than a holiday — it’s a vibrant reflection of how Mexicans and many Latin Americans understand life and death. Its roots stretch back roughly 2,500 to 3 ...

This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention.” ...

Gazing in that mirror, he committed to art in an instant, and just as swiftly all else was stripped away: his scholarship, ...

It's a portrait of the '70s folk-rock star, and of "Cat's in the Cradle," the tune that turned daddy issues into mythology.

Here’s a curated week of where to stay, what to eat and how to play in the city that never sleeps — not a full itinerary, but ...

Instead of singing the lyric “in all of us command,” Wainwright sang it as, "That only us command.” The change to the lyric ...

Florence Welch explores her desire for greatness and the constraints she faces as a female artist in Florence + the Machine's ...

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in 'Bread of Angels.' ...

Individual family stories and mythic American stories and songs help us define what a life looks like and how it should be ...