Jack Hamilton

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Click here to order my book, Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

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The New Book About The Simpsons Is Hilarious, Joke-a-Minute, and Overstays Its Welcome

Springfield Confidential, by one of the show’s longest-serving writers, recreates the best and worst of the game-changing sitcom.

Slate, 12 June 2018

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On Kanye West’s New Album, the GOOD Music Rapper Focuses Simply on Good Music

Kids See Ghosts, West’s collaborative album with Kid Cudi, is his first in years that isn’t about his image.

Slate, 11 June 2018

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Pusha T’s New Album Is Outstanding. The Feud It Stoked Could Be Even Better.

Daytona is a gift that should keep giving.

Slate, 29 May 2018

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Stop Calling James Harden a Choker. The Rockets Might Lose to the Warriors but It’s Not About Being “Clutch.”

The Houston Rockets are trying to vanquish the idea that they’re not clutch enough.

Slate, 14 May 2018

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HBO’s Admirable New Elvis Documentary Would Have Benefited From More Suspicious Minds

Elvis Presley: The Searcher offers a treasure trove of footage but whitewashes some aspects of his story.

Slate, 10 April 2018

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The Virginia Cavaliers Are Slow and Sometimes Boring and Amazing to Watch

In praise of the most dominant team in college hoops.

Slate, 14 March 2018

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Click here to order my book, Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

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The Cavaliers Just Blew Up Their Team to Please LeBron James. It Probably Won’t Work.

James will likely take his talents elsewhere this summer, and some other team will rearrange its entire universe around his particular wishes.

Slate, 8 February 2018

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The Entire NBA Has Been Afflicted by Warriors Derangement Syndrome

The league is on the verge of a collective nervous breakdown.

Slate, 26 January 2018

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Revisit the ’92 Celtics and the Geto Boys in This Lively, Flawed First Novel

The 21st century has heard more than its share from Boston’s white people.

Slate, 24 January 2018

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Why Are We Suddenly So Tired of Our Biggest Pop Stars?

U2, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and Eminem all put out albums this year, and America seemed exhausted by all of them.

Slate 25 December 2017

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Eminem’s New Album Is a Fiery and Much Needed Denunciation of Trump. It’s Also Terrible.

Revival tries to be both a crowd-pleasing pop album and a middle finger to white America. It fails, but it might also get you back on his side.

Slate 19 December 2017

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Charles Manson Embodied the Worst of the 1960s—and Every Era Since

The now-deceased cult leader weaponized the zeitgeist to make himself famous. Now he’s dead, but because of us, his fame will live forever.

Slate 20 November 2017

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Ever Wonder Why Rolling Stone Gives So Many Raves to Washed-Up Rockers? A New Book Reveals All.

A juicy new biography of Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner reveals the magazine’s complicated, compromised relationship to rock stars.

Slate 23 October, 2017

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Click here to order my book, Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination

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The Concert for Charlottesville Was a Night of Stars, Tears, and Vague Platitudes

At the “Evening of Music and Unity,” musicians such as Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton avoided specifics at a time when they were needed.

Slate, 25 September 2017