Songs in the Rough: From ""Heartbreak Hotel"" to ""Rhythm Nation"": Rock's Greatest Songs in First-Draft Form
Stephen Bishop
Described by its author, Jeffrey McQuain, as a ""word workout,"" Power Language: Getting the Most Out of Your Words will jump-start your vocabulary, if you follow his advice on how to ""Stress for Continue reading »
Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
Sune Engel Rasmussen
The upheaval of the American occupation of Afghanistan is seen through the eyes of young people who endured, embraced, or fought it in this penetrating debut. Wall Street Continue reading »
Critic and satirist Brown (150 Glimpses of the Beatles) depicts Queen Elizabeth (1926–2022) as “a human looking-glass” in this clever and stylish portrait. Conveying the queen’s Continue reading »
Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph film critic Robey (coeditor of The DVD Stack) serves up a rollicking survey of cinematic turkeys from 1916’s Intolerance through 2019’s Cats. Many of the films Continue reading »
Don’t Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
Aaron Betsky
“We should not construct new buildings from scratch,” argues architecture critic Betsky (Monster Leviathan) in this eye-opening treatise in favor of “adaptive reuse,” an Continue reading »