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★★★☆☆ Patti Smith’s Devotion is a concise and special compilation consisting of three works that explore the author’s creative process. Two narrative essays bookend the eponymous story “Devotion”, a short and bittersweet tale of a young...
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Chris Ware is one of the greatest cartoonists working today and the sumptuous Monograph provides all the proof one needs to understand this fact. Monograph is a memoir disguised...
★★★★☆ After graduating from Syracuse University in 1964, a young Lou Reed took a songwriting job for a label that mass-produced pop tunes and released them under fictitious band names. As a sort of...
★★☆☆☆ KISS co-founder Gene Simmons really likes power. So much so that his new book’s title contains this word three times. On Power: My Journey Through the Corridors of Power and How You Can...
★★★★☆ In 1940, surrealist artist Leonora Carrington suffered a psychotic breakdown. She was in her early twenties, and her partner, celebrated master of Surrealism Max Ernst, was just taken from her at rifle-point and...
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Leonardo da Vinci may be the best biography of the year. It has certainly received the most hype, and in this instance it rises to the level of approbation...
★★☆☆☆ Kristen Radtke’s aimless comics memoir Imagine Wanting Only This is about little more than a writer in search of a story. Kristen clumsily wanders through a series of inspired diversions with hope that,...
★★★★☆ Morgue: A Life in Death is an enlightening read; do not be put off by the title. Although there are graphic descriptions of wounds and modes of death, this is not a blood...
★★★★☆ Why should there be yet another book written about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes? There have been so many explorations of their real and imagined (and intertwined) lives that it seems...
