Kelefa Sanneh

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  • Nov 12, 2025
    Sometimes it seems as if everyone wants to be a pop girlie. Last year, Taylor Swift counted herself among the “tortured poets,” but nowadays she is a self-described...
  • Sep 16, 2025
    In 2016, a sinuous remix of a track called “Diles” began pulsing its way through streaming services and night clubs. It featured a handful of Puerto Rican performers, but...
  • May 8, 2025
    On Friday evening, I was texting with a friend when I happened to mention where I was: sitting in the middle of Times Square, watching a boxing match. He wrote back immediately:...
  • Apr 29, 2025
    “I don’t write a whole lot of love songs,” Megan Moroney said last month, onstage at Radio City Music Hall. Fortunately, that’s not exactly true. Almost all...
  • Feb 12, 2025
    Mike White’s first job as a television writer, in the late nineties, was on the teen soap opera “Dawson’s Creek.”