The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love...
As the authorized biography of the Man in Black, Steve Turner’s The Man Called Cash initially raised red flags for me... read more
The Wilco Book
Pick up mysterious hardcover. Caress glossy surface depicting mostly obscured guitarist standing before dressing room mirror... read more
Metallica: So What!
Rarely has a book been so aptly titled as this superfluous, for-the-fans-only history of Metallica. But, given that James, Lars, Kirk... read more
Birth of a Nation
Like Huey Freeman, the central character in his Boondocks comic strip, Aaron McGruder is somewhat contrarian... read more
George Pelecanos' Capitol City Soul
Washington, D.C., was a tense place to be in 1968. White suburbanites generally viewed “the District line” as a sort of Berlin Wall... read more
Standing By Words
Nature writing—it’s a specialty genre, one assumes, as the national parks are “special” places, and ecologically sensible habits... read more
Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul
Tony Hendra has devoted most of his adult life to biting satire. He’s most well-known for his performance as the cricket-bat-wielding Ian Faith from This Is Spinal Tap... read more
The Future Dictionary of America
What are words worth? The wry message of this clever candy box of a book is that they’re worth a hell of a lot... read more
Music: Healing the Rift
It’s always a pleasure to read a historical survey that covers huge amounts of ground nimbly and stylishly, with a refined yet decisive sense of judgment... read more
The Irresponsible Self
Let’s start with the obvious: James Wood is probably the finest book critic now working—an ambitious, accessible literary essayist in the mold of Lionel Trilling or Virginia Woolf... read more
Oblivion: Stories
“What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming... read more
The Question of God
The intriguing premise of The Question of God may yet seduce me into a second reading, but the first left morning-after doubts... read more
The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard makes a grand return to the literary stage with The Great Fire, winner of the 2003 National Book Award... read more
Beijing Doll
And you thought your adolescence was rocky. Chun Sue’s was deemed too hot to handle by her own government... read more
Standing By Words
“I seem incapable of writing a story in which people do not babble philosophically,” the late John Gardner once joked... read more
Love Saves the Day: A History...
1970s dance culture—i.e., disco—persistently occupies the summit of what’s considered tacky, false and elitist, the slickly gleaming antithesis of punk and rap... read more
Dante's Inferno
One only need look at the cover of this adaptation of Dante’s Inferno to realize it's not your average translation... read more
American Humor
Constance Rourke incisively traces the sudden appearance and subsequent development of uniquely American styles of humor... read more
Early Occult Memory Systems...
A collection as good as B.H. Fairchild’s Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest demands some kind of pomp... read more
Higher Ground
University of Wisconsin professor Craig Werner’s first mass-market book, 1999’s A Change Is Gonna Come, was the culmination... read more
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