Joni Mitchell — an only child born on the Canadian prairies — reinvented herself for more than six decades, aptly singing “I’m on a lonely road, and I am traveling, traveling, traveling, looking for ...

Writer Ann Powers’ new book on Joni Mitchell, “Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell” (published June 11), is a bit different from the usual biography of a musician. It’s a story of the acclaimed ...

In her new book, “Traveling,” the music critic Ann Powers offers a highly personal, even confessional, meditation on Mitchell’s life, work and influence. By Francine Prose Francine Prose’s memoir, ...

Cover Art for “I Dream of Joni” owned by Gallery Books. Cussing out an entire audience of City University of New York students and throwing a cat out for pissing on her canvases may not be what you ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We sang Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” at my eighth-grade graduation in suburban New Jersey in 1971. It ruined the song for me for decades. That said, I have always loved Mitchell. Of course I have.

Today's episode is about two emblematic musicians who take us to very different parts of the globe, from the London punk scene to the Laurel Canyon utopia of the 1960s and 70s. First, Stewart Copeland ...

When the legendary singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell made her surprise return to live performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 2022, it represented the culmination of a long and cyclical journey ...

More than any other artist from the Golden Era of rock ‘n’ roll, Joni Mitchell has captured the imaginations of music fans of every age, gender, and race in the 2020s. And biographer Ann Powers is ...