Books
“As morality shifts,” NPR’s Ann Powers writes, “music does, too, helping people navigate those boundaries.”
Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
“To me, ’67 was a year that was different from what came after it.”
Laurent Binet’s entertaining detective yarn is set in the harum-scarum social scene of French literary theory, philosophy, and politics.
Helen Dunmore’s astounding final novel is a fascinating take on a family of radicals living in Bristol, England during the French Revolution.
Tom Perrotta zeroes in on liberal pieties, a sure way to spice up the fun he has with our current cultural obsessions.
A gripping autobiography and beautiful new solo CD from a master jazz pianist — Fred Hersch.
There was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.
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