For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Charles Shaar Murray

From the December 2024 Issue

Positively 4th Street

Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital

By David Browne

From the December 2022 Issue

Brood on the Tracks

The Philosophy of Modern Song

By Bob Dylan

From the December 2021 Issue

Wish You Were There?

Through the Prism: Untold Rock Stories from the Hipgnosis Archive

By Aubrey Powell

From the February 1991 Issue

He Sought Honour Amongst Thieves

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S Burroughs

By Ted Morgan

From the March 1993 Issue

Carnival Spirit

American Ghosts & Old World Wonders

By Angela Carter

From the August 1989 Issue

Punks in Perspective

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century

By Greil Marcus

From the October 2014 Issue

Only Connect

The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs

By Greil Marcus

From the April 2011 Issue

Rebel Rebel

33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs

By Dorian Lynskey

From the July 2012 Issue

Sympathy for the Devils

The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

By Christopher Sandford

From the October 2012 Issue

Purple Reign

Prince

By Matt Thorne

From the June 2013 Issue

Life of a Ladies’ Man

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

By Sylvie Simmons

From the February 2014 Issue

Doomed Poets in Romantic Squalor

Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel

By Sherill Tippins

From the December 2013 Issue

Before They Were Famous

The Beatles: All These Years, Volume 1 – Tune In

By Mark Lewisohn

From the November 2013 Issue

Man in Black

Johnny Cash: The Life

By Robert Hilburn