Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
by Ben Ratliff
TRUE
Ratliff's title refers not to the range of his own book, which is slim not encyclopedic, but to the endless world of music our Spotify-era ears have available to them. Listening is indubitably differe... (Tom)
The Female of the Species
by Mindy McGinnis
Alex is known as "the girl with the dead sister." Her older sister Anna was murdered three years ago, and in the time since, Alex has succeeded in carrying out a violent, but secret, revenge on her si... (Karlyn)
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them
by Stephen Burt
MADE-UP
Some anthologies of new poetry try to take a stand, declare a school, say what poetry is now and what it should be. Burt, a poet himself, couldn't include all of his peers in his book, but it seems li... (Tom)
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