COVER STORY
Which Way the Wind Blows
What has happened to protest music?
By Grant Rosenberg

ISSUES
The Militarization of Police
By Kathleen Phalen

MUSIC
Hank Williams—Too Little, Too Late
In an excerpt from his new book How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life, master guitarist John Fahey describes a close encounter with Hank Williams.

MUSIC
Yo! The Last Poets, Progenitors of Rap
The time: the late 1960s. And the Last Poets were America’s first rap group. For many, they were the true prophets of those times.
By David Dalton

LITERATURE
At the Movies with Franz
What is it about the haunting images and depressed landscape of Franz Kafka that has played so well in movies?
By Christina Ball

FICTION
Melville & Malt Liquor
By Mark Allen Hunt

MUSIC
Something Was Happening, But I Didn’t Know What It Was
By David Dalton

TELEVISION
Does Dr. Laura Want to Spank America?
By Jesse Brown 

COMEDY
Monty Python and the Great British Invasion That Almost Wasn’t
By Jim Yoakum 

FILM
American Zombie
George A. Romero’s three decades of cultural cannibalism
By Daniel Kraus

ART
I Once Had a Human Who Loved Me
Susan Coe’s graphic illustrations depict the origins of evil and the humans who comply with the torture we inflict on the living beings around us.
By Milton Heap 

POETRY
Nocturnal Emissions
By Norman Minnick

PHOTOGRAPHY
Glimpses of Reality
The photography of Walker Evans
By Nat Whilk 

REVIEWS
Slim Cessna, Springsteen, The Grateful Dead, Vaclav Havel, Shopgirl and much more