The Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ Has a Message from Your Future
Listening to the Beatles’ Revolver today, especially “Tomorrow Never Knows”, one gets the uncanny feeling that this album is not from 1966, but from the future.
Ed Simon
I'm the Public Humanities Lecturer in English at Carnegie Mellon and the editor of The Pittsburgh Review of Books, as well as a widely published author, including the book Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, named among the best books of 2024 by The New Yorker. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and The Washington Post, as well as several times at Lapham's Quarterly and I'm a 2026 Kukula Award finalist for excellence in nonfiction book reviewing.