Jason Heller
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Following a decade of relentless self-reinvention, one song signaled the beginning of a new persona for the shape-shifting pop star: one known simply as David Bowie.
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For his second solo album, The Smashing Pumpkins visionary worked with renowned producer Rick Rubin. The result is a breathtaking balance between intimacy and imagination.
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Stream Swedish songwriter Emil Svanängen's first new album in six years.
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The Toronto rock band's third album is an exorcism of nervous energy at a time when it's direly needed.
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This collection of essays, poems, and short stories — edited by John Freeman — makes for a gripping and intensely personal examination of inequality, transience and displacement in America.
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Anne Gisleson was reeling from a series of family tragedies when she began meeting with friends to discuss books and life in post-Katrina New Orleans. Her new book chronicles a year of those meetings.
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Sex is such an inextricable part of pop music, it's easy to overlook, but NPR Music critic Ann Powers rectifies that in her new book, a portrait of America's obsession with sex as it manifests in pop.
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Philosophy professor and avid surfer Aaron James brings his two passions together in his new book, drawing connections between the surfer's state of mind and age-old philosophical conundrums.
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The songs on Cost Of Living are a big leap forward in the evolution of one of punk's most revolutionary groups.
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Vyvyan Evans' new book about the rise of emojis casts the little icons as part of human language's long-running struggle to evolve — but too often it reads like a textbook, didactic and dry.