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Nov 26, 2014
The Best Fiction of 2014
We Were Liars
By E. Lockhart
$17.99
We Were Liars begins with the bones of a pulpy television drama, or maybe a trashy beach read — well-heeled...
May 21, 2014
Un-Guilty Pleasures
Frog Music
By Emma Donaghue
In 2010, Emma Donoghue rocketed to the top of local and national bestseller lists with Room, a haunting, taut, utterly unforgettable...
Feb 26, 2014
St. Vincent
In an interview published last week in the Boston Globe, Annie Clark — aka St. Vincent — revealed that while writing and recording her...
Feb 19, 2014
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
The album title speaks volumes: First, there's the reference, to the summer-of-'75 O'Jays hit of the same name, part of a lineage of black...
Jan 8, 2014
Angel Haze
Dirty Gold entered the world auspiciously: In late December, after what were apparently a series of frustrating label negotiations and release-date delays for her...
Nov 27, 2013
Ellen Cushing’s Top Five Albums of 2013
Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City
Fuck the haters, though Vampire Weekend's are legion and somewhat legitimate: The band's 2008 self-titled debut was smug...
Nov 27, 2013
The Best Books of 2013
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, by Sheri Fink
$27
It is, at this point, almost myth, or maybe metaphor: The...