Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein biography is a study in frustration
The writer’s posthumous reputation and influence continue to manifest themselves in writing, music and theater
Philip Clark
Tuesday
Tuesday
Erik Satie was an inadvertent innovator
Ian Penman’s brief book takes us around the French composer’s life three times
Tuesday
Charles Ives was a composer before his time
He can be remembered as a time-traveler through American music whose presence changed everything
Thursday
Back to the birth of the Greenwich Village music scene
David Browne’s latest book pivots around 1961
Sunday
An unvarnished insight into the mind of Sonny Rollins
Even if jazz has developed stylistically in ways the jazz saxophonist might not have foreseen, its founding attitudes are enduring
Tuesday
Relive Lou Reed’s wild, contradictory life
In Lou Reed: The King of New York , Will Hermes seems unusually well attuned to his subject, while resisting any temptation to soft-pedal
