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He played cello for Allen Ginsberg, nearly joined Talking Heads and was sampled by Kanye West. Now the singular, genre-spanning Russell has the exhaustive study he deserves

The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself

Other lives: Lecturer and writer whose poetry mixed verse with original academic analysis

Prominent poets of the era — including John Betjeman, WH Auden, and Philip Larkin — were disparaged, accused of being drunkards, snobs, communists, mentally unstable, or even creators of explicit content

Emergency surgery on her spine led to months of enforced silence for the former 10,000 Maniacs singer-songwriter. But rather than take it easy, she’s been raising her teenage daughter, campaigning against fracking and has a new album out

The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.

One of Britain’s most cosmopolitan composers was celebrated with a forceful performance of the immense A Sea Symphony

Photographer who documented regulars at the ‘Beat hotel’ in Paris including Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs

San Francisco port officials seized copies of Howl and Other Poems in 1957, accusing publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti of obscenity.

The cannabis and LGBTQ rights movements have been connected from the beginning, as they mutually supported reform throughout the decades. "Arguably, neither would exist as they do today if not for the other," said Tyme Ferris, founder and CEO of cannabis brand Pantheon Collective.

The singer, poet and writer answers your questions about playing music with her children, being at her friend Allen Ginsberg’s deathbed and maintaining hope in a troubled world