My book Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening is an attempt to come to terms with running as a means of hearing music better. Of course, running is good enough on its own; it doesn’t ...

Ben Ratliff is running. He’s off the cinder path encircling Van Cortland Park’s Parade Ground, not far from his home in the Bronx, N.Y. He enters the woods. Earphones in, he listens to Eric Dolphy’s ...

In this case, it makes sense to begin in the middle — that is, several miles into a run in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, with the blues or hardcore or even traditional Japanese flute music blasting ...

THE 1975 hit song Born to Run is generally considered to be Bruce Springsteen’s signature song.In the magazine Rolling Stone's 2021 list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”, it was ranked number ...