Books/Featured: Top of Home Page The Sex Pistols and the Beating of an Exceptionally Dead Horse By PopMatters Staff / 3 May 2017 Sometimes the best thing about a book is its cover.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page Lyricists and Composers are ‘Links in a Chain’ in Absorbing ‘More Songwriters on Songwriting’ By Alex Ramon / 12 April 2017 Paul Zollo's book is a satisfying sequel in which composers from Paul Simon to Sia, Elvis Costello to Loretta Lynn, discuss their creative processes.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page/PopMatters Picks ‘The Glassblower’s Children’ Explores the Existential Melancholia of the Child’s World By Imran Khan / 12 April 2017 Deep at the existentialist heart of this story there's a solemn treatise on the socially inequitable struggles between the worlds of the child and the adult.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page Trevor Noah on the Biracial Divide By Imran Khan / 30 March 2017 The indelible experiences of Trevor Noah's past have been parlayed into his memoir, Born a Crime, a history of a life living under racial divide.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page ‘Rachel’s Blue’ Left Me Perplexed By Diane Leach / 11 July 2016 There are times when a reviewer and book simply do not jibe.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page ‘LEGO Star Wars’ Is a Photographic Wonderland By Sachyn Mital / 23 December 2015 Vesa Lehtimäki's collection of photographs featuring LEGO toys in inventive situations is an inspiring and innovative collection.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page Rehashing ‘Becoming a Marihuana User’ By Alice Mills / 17 November 2015 A short and pleasant little tour with Howard S. Becker into the world of marihuana.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page/Food Drink What Can a Book Really Tell You About Whiskey? By Diane Leach / 23 October 2015 If you're old enough to drink whiskey, you're too old for scratch n' sniff.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page From Manuscripts to Pop Culture, Dante Endures By John L. Murphy / 15 July 2015 Dante's English Public glances at current adaptations of Dante's work, from the comic Nightcrawler's Inferno to Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page A New Edition of Sandra Cisneros’s Poetry Looks at the “Girl Grief Decade” By Diane Leach / 5 June 2015 Few of us can wring art from our grief as Sandra Cisneros has, here.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page ‘Epitaph’ Dispels Hollywood Myths About the Gunfight at O.K. Corral By Jonathan Frahm / 3 June 2015 Doria Russell finds heroes in the errant in Epitaph, a novel that captures the realities of the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and much more.
Books/Featured: Top of Home Page/PopMatters Picks Why Novelist Richard Price Doesn’t Need a Pseudonym By Grace Lichtenstein / 5 May 2015 The language and dialogue in his latest novel, The Whites, gives away his identity -- and that's a good thing.