Relatively early in A Prayer for the Dying, a man whose son is afflicted with a particular kind of plague compares his current situation to the Biblical character of Abraham—or, more specifically, the ...

It’s rare to finish reading a book of moral philosophy and immediately want to pass it on to your friends, but Call It Evil is that book. Urgent, sharply written, fascinating and extremely readable, ...

As enormously successful and highly praised as The Kick Inside was, it may be surprising that several of its tracks have ended up at the low end of our ratings. Perhaps less remarkable is the ...

The question that the group set out to answer was “Why does so much Black music born out of pain sound so joyful?” The answer that they discovered by working through these pieces is that the answer is ...

Throughout his discography, Hosono’s solo output has been driven by kinetic curiosity and sonic wanderlust. Where 1973’s landmark Hosono House established his signature blend of home-recorded Japanese ...

At his best, Kele Okereke yearned like no one else has yearned, and he could make you yearn alongside him. The Bloc Party frontman (and sole original member of the group) had a real talent for ...

Readers will likely be impressed by Kendall’s copious research on Trudeau. He interviews numerous subjects and provides early photographs of Bull Tales and Doonesbury strips. Despite a minor complaint ...

In the dregs of most major artists’ catalogs lie grievous mistakes and tragic missteps, usually the products of inexperienced youth, weary old age or misbegotten midcareer hubris. Kate Bush has her ...

Yellow Pine revisits themes that Watkins explored in her previous novels, but here she paints her characters in rosier hues, crafting people who know each other's hearts are in the right place, even ...

All Things Go had so much to offer, we had to put together a list of superlatives to dole out to the best and greatest of the weekend: our favorite sights, sounds, stages and moments of the festival.

The campaign’s true genius lies in zeroing in on this specific set of records. Rather than risk newbies getting lost in the band’s first three albums, through which they found their sound, or their ...

Joko Anwar’s brazenly confident genre approach has won him many fans; indeed, his Satan’s Slaves films are two of the most viewed Indonesian films of all time. Even they could not have predicted, ...