This recent Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers biography sticks to the objective facts so closely, and the telling is so firmly chronological, that the author tends to miss the forest for the trees.
Even as it irritates me, Kevin Mattson's We're Not Here to Entertain is worth reading because it has so much direct relevance to American punks operating today.
Like a properly tightened corset, the total effect of The Art of Drag lends a stunning shape to the art forms in question.
"Try this at home": With her latest work, Our Time Is Now, Plotter-in-Chief Stacey Abrams offers a timely playbook for how to ensure free and fair elections in America.
No one living in America today can escape the blast radius of the questions raised in Wendy A. Woloson's Crap.
Reading Dressed is rather like the experience of wandering through a department store or a friend's well-curated closet.
Stephanie Ross' book on aesthetic philosophy, Two Thumbs Up, can be used as a dissertation template. Just expect -- like a critic -- to argue with it, at times.
Phuc Tran's smart, tough memoir, Sigh, Gone, might launch a broken down kid to read 150 great books—for free, at the local library.
Ian Zack's biography gives the often-overlooked Odetta a chance to keeping shining that little light of hers.
We are living in a season of manifestos and Breanne Fahs is our queen. Our guidebook: Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution.
The fact that Rebecca Solnit still exists is all the proof we need that her feminist thinking remains vital.
