Books
“Surely the passion for the plain, the homespun, the banal is itself a form of betrayal, a refusal to look honestly at a complex universe.”
Cursed Legacy‘s chronicle of the life of Thomas Man’s son is an important addition to the cultural history of the twentieth century.
The Library of America volumes of Virgil Thomson’s writings will help reestablish him as one of the 20th century’s preeminent musical scribes.
Scholastique Mukasonga’s autobiography, Cockroaches, examines the three decades leading up to the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.
The central mystery of the life of Brian Wilson: How did such a sweet and fragile soul create such complex and enduring music?
As confessions of rock decadence go, Lol Tolhust’s are fairly tame stuff.
The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.
Steven Hyden doesn’t really pick a side in these fights; he’s broad minded enough to know and enjoy every artist’s work.
In The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride seems to be determined to combat the soullessness of pornography.
This is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.
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