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In this episode, the jazz musician Robert Glasper discusses the genre's problematic fondness for the past, and a troubled man takes to the water for a series of adventures. (episode)
"Jessica Jones" is the latest in a surprising number of shows, from fantasy to family drama to comedy, dealing with sexual violence in ways TV has never shown before.
Have you ever wondered what that man behind the genial but authoritative voice that cautions subway riders is really thinking?
Robert Glasper, a Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, says the genre's become a museum of itself, obsessed with the great players of the mid-twentieth century at the cost of new talent.
Staff writer Ben McGrath tells the story of Dick Conant, a troubled man who spent years of his life crisscrossing America by canoe, like a Mark Twain character.