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Laconic Cool: Air’s New Album, Talkie Walkie
On their latest release, Talkie Walkie, Air has produced a firmly interesting and even at times exhilarating album.
“The Ether of Ambition”
Fiction
Muddled Brilliance
Finding the significance in Martin Amis’ latest novel, Yellow Dog
Musical Contrarians: Broadcast’s Distanced, Subtle Music
For a band that’s generally avoided major scales in the past because, as singer Trish Keenan stated, they kept coming out too happy (“like Britpop”), Broadcast certainly does something beautiful and with great depth with the happiness on their latest album, hahasound.
Sensitive & Witty
The Lackadaisical Charm in David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day
Garry Wills’ Nixon Agonistes
A look at how the widely disparate politics of the late 1960s allowed “the least ‘authentic’ man alive” to be elected president.
Deep, Deep Books: Sinclair Lewis’ Babbitt
Lasting influences from one of the most forgotten novelists of the last century.
Deep, Deep Books: Frederich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
All Nietzsche books come in black.
Deep, Deep Books: Louis Ferdinand Céline’s Death on the Installment Plan
Céline wrote with a relentless cynicism that hardly vindicated itself with any adjacent human warmth.