Books
Anthony DeCurtis wants to do justice to his subjects’ extensive catalogue, but the book begins to feel less like exegesis and more like Lou Reed 101.
De Hamel’s history is a detective story, a love story, and a revelation of the nourishment to be found in celebrated libraries and collections.
“Everything about the Holocaust already seems so thoroughly unreal, as if it no longer belongs to the experience of our generation, but to mythology…”
William Gass’s primal loyalty was to the words composing his texts.
Some of our critics talk about the books that meant the most to them over the past year.
Reading Nikki Giovanni, one is inspired to never cower, to never beg, to never surrender.
“I see him as the greatest artist of the English language, it happens to be in song, of the second half of the 20th century.
Manhattan Beach feels acutely relevant despite being set in the past.
Best Food Writing 2017 presents, as the series always has, a veritable buffet of pleasurable reading for the foodie.
Arts Remembrance: Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95