Morrissey Returns to the Wilde
The admissions in the songs on Morrissey’s Oscar-Wilde-influenced Make-Up Is a Lie converge to create an intimate and candid portrait of the duality of self in the quagmire of celebrity.
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The Beat Goes on with ‘Kerouac on Record’
These essays explore the connection between Kerouac and the music he loved -- Charlie Parker, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker, Miles Davis and others -- and the musicians who loved him, in turn.
‘Frankenstein Underground’ and the Deaths That Tax Us
Frankenstein Underground is the magnificent postmodern crown jewel in the Hellboy-verse that creator Mike Mignola thinks of as a love-letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs. We think otherwise.
The High Art of Disownership in ‘Death Sentence: London’
Death Sentence: London is quite possibly the most important work of 2015.