Before The Irish Goodbye became one of the most acclaimed debut novels of 2025, Heather Aimee O'Neill spent years quietly writing it while building a career helping other writers tell their stories. Here she discusses the vulnerability of ambition, the challenge of living an authentic life, and the strange transition from observer to protagonist.

Saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin on mentorship, perseverance, and the making of her new album, We Dream.

To mark what would have been his 100th birthday today, I’m revisiting a rare 1986 conversation between Miles and my dad, Ben Sidran, recorded on the terrace of Miles’ Malibu home.

Mexican icon Julieta Venegas on how growing up in Tijuana - a border city suspended between Mexico and the United States - gave her an instinct for living “in-between,” both musically and personally.

Here she reflects on what it means to be norteña, and the long journey that led her out of Tijuana and ultimately back home. This month, Venegas releases both a new album, Norteña, and a memoir, Norteña: Memorias del comienzo. Together, they form what she describes as “the biggest puzzle I’ve put together in my whole career.”