THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (December 30, 2023):

Rosalynn Carter Was a Political Genius

She fell in love with a future president at 17. Marriage never waylaid her dreams.

By MICHAEL PATERNITI

Three miles lie between this life and another, between their two houses, hers in downtown Plains, Ga., and his family farm in the country surrounded by peanuts planted in red clay. Three miles between the ordinary and extraordinary.

When Sinead O’Connor Unleashed Her Ghosts

Uncovering the unlikely story behind the singer’s first album.

By JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN

To say that Sinead O’Connor never quite regained the musical heights of her 1987 debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” is not to slight the rest of her output, which contained jewels. There is no getting back to a record like that first one. It was in some sense literally scary: The label had to change the original cover art, which showed a bald O’Connor hissing like a banshee cat, for the American release. In the version we saw, she looks down, arms crossed, mouth closed, vulnerable. The music had both sides of her in it.