Books
There’s a larger story to tell about black composers and musicians breaking into the film and TV business, but its only lightly touched on here.
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A pair of recent books help keep the glorious spirit of Carnival alive.
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Long live Fluxus, with its questionable boxes of ephemera, its baggy bags of soil, and its mad prankster sensibility.
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Humankind, at the very least, compels us to rethink fashionably pessimistic assumptions about human nature.
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I heartily recommend M.M. Blume’s excellent Fallout, which ably synthesizes large amounts of archival, historical, and biographical material from three continents.
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The stories in And Go Like This are wise, compassionate, and deftly crafted.
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Author Ethan Mordden serves up plenty of entertaining yarns, sometimes as exaggerated as the genre to which they pay homage.
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Some of the most insightful and moving parts of the biography are Neeli Cherkovski’s personal recounting of his on-again off again relationship with Charles Bukowski.
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In his book, Wolfram Eilenberger has provided an absorbing view of a period in Western intellectual history that was committed to the new.
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To Live & Defy in LA sees Gangsta Rap as an important way to understand how systemic racism has worked (and works) in America today.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025