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Carla Morrison Wasn’t Afraid to Go Pop. It helped him overcome his anxiety.

Morrison’s early recordings featured him as a pop-folk singer-songwriter based on guitar and keyboards. His first full-length album, the largely acoustic “Déjenme Llorar” (“Let Me Cry”), went platinum in Mexico in 2012 and won a Latin Grammy for best alternative music album. Just three years later, Morrison replaced his voice with the following: “Supremacy of …

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A Nightmare, Dystopian Russia Designed. Afraid to Live Now

Over the past 40 years, the work of Vladimir Sorokin has pierced almost every conceivable political and social taboo in Russia. His novel “Blue Lard”, which features a striking sex scene between clones of Stalin and Khrushchev, has launched a criminal investigation for allegedly selling pornography. Pro-Kremlin activists accused him of promoting cannibalism and sought …

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