COVER STORY
The Mystery of Terry Southern
The art of Terry Southern, from the films Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider to the books Candy and Red Dirt Marijuana, defined an era and what it meant to be hip. It was all downhill from there.
By Victor Bockris 

FILM
Complete Harmony
Daniel Kraus profiles filmmaker Harmony Korine. 

MUSIC
Royal Trux: Conjugating the Twin Infinitives
A career retrospective
By James Lindbloom 

MUSIC
Rise and Bloom Again
County Records and the legacy of Tommy Jarrell
By Robert Cochran 

INTERVIEW
Harry Smith
The creator of the Folkways Anthology of American Folk Music was also a philosopher, a filmmaker and a stunningly weird genius.
By John Cohen 

ISSUES
Marketing God
Mainstream Christianity is grasping for ways to connect with a skeptical generation, and the results are both admirable and absurd.
By Tyler Thoreson 

FILM
The Extra
So you think it’s lonely being a star? Try being an utterly replaceable extra. Novelist Eric Rickstad tells the exciting story of not hanging out with Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger on the set of the latest Farrelly brothers film, Me, Myself and Irene. 

BOOK
Gimme Some Truth
The government’s investigation of John Lennon
By John W. Whitehead 

LET IT BLEED
Meredith Monk: An Alien X-Rays Earth!
By David Dalton 

MUSIC
Ronnie Spector: The Being of Bayyaybee
By Lenny Kaye

PHOTOGRAPHY
Havana de Mississippi
Cuban art finds its way to America through an unlikely port.
By Gary Bridgman 

BOOK
Ten Rounds with Francis Coppola
The director contends with his biography.
By Daniel Kraus 

FILM
Films Lost & Found
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Grand Illusion, and The Messiah
By A. S. Hamrah

REVIEWS
“Regarding Beauty,” Will Roy Sanders, Luisa Casati, Jerome Kitzke and more.