A YEAR OF SPLENDOR, MEMORY AND MODERN IMAGINATION AT THE FRIST
The Frist Art Museum’s 2027 exhibition season brings Mughal opulence, French modernism, American pop, Black craft traditions, Escher’s impossible worlds,...
THE GUITARIST BEHIND THE CURTAIN: JOHN JORGENSON TAKES A BOW AT THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM
In a city built on the elegant labor of musicians who often shape history from just outside the spotlight, the...
THE WOMAN BEHIND COUNTRY MUSIC’S MOST INDELIBLE FRAMES
At the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, visionary director Trey Fanjoy steps into the spotlight for the 18th...
THE BOYS IN GOLD ARE HAVING A MOMENT—AND SAM SURRIDGE IS AT THE CENTER OF IT
With a second straight All-Star nod, Nashville SC’s English striker joins Hany Mukhtar, Andy Najar and Brian Schwake in carrying...
SUN-KISSED SELF-REINVENTION: A REVIEW OF REASONS TO BE LOVED BY YOU BY HANNAH BROWN
In Reasons to Be Loved by You, Hannah Brown returns to the emotional terrain that made her public persona compelling...
POWER DRESSING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD: REVIEWING CHOKE POINT BY BRAD THOR
In Brad Thor’s latest Scot Harvath thriller, geopolitical dread arrives dressed in tactical minimalism: clean lines, lethal intent, and a...
SCOOP DREAMS: LOKELANI ALABANZA’S ICE CREAM QUEEN RECLAIMS DESSERT AS CULTURE
In her debut cookbook, the Nashville pastry chef turns ice cream into an archive of Black joy, Southern memory, and...
WHEN THE BAND BREAKS: THE COME APART AND THE ART OF COMING UNDONE
Susannah Felts’s new novel turns indie-rock ambition, Southern return, and the quiet labor of self-reinvention into a mood piece for...
THE ART OF STANDING ASKEW: A REVIEW OF CONTRAPPOSTO BY DABVE EGGERS
Dave Eggers’s Contrapposto turns a lifelong friendship into a study of beauty, making, and the uneasy glamour of refusing the...
ANN PATCHETT’S WHISTLER IS QUIET LUXURY FOR THE SOUL
A luminous novel of memory, style, and emotional inheritance, Whistler proves that Ann Patchett’s most elegant accessory is restraint. In...