This YA novel from New York Times bestselling author A. G. Howard marks the beginning of a new era for fans of the Splintered series. Rune Germain moves to a boarding school outside of Paris, only to discover that at this opera-house-turned-music-con...

Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well. For thirty...

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton’s astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys c...

Taps & Moses have been two of the most prolific graffiti writers in Europe for years. More recently, between 2008 to 2010, using their collective moniker “Topsprayer,” they painted 1000 trains in 1000 days. It’s not only the volume of production for...

How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators—along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, Africa...

An examination of every Pink Floyd song from ‘Arnold Layne’ to ‘Louder Than Words’ The stories behind the songs, their context within the parent albums and the times they were written and recorded Who played what in the studio and when the songs were...