Notes on Sontag and Steiner

by Mark Bauerlein

Robert Boyers joins the podcast to discuss his new book Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner. Continue Reading »

16 Nov 2023

Carl’s Rock Songbook #75: Bayles on the Beatles Beating Motown

by Carl Scott

Martha Bayles’s expertise, which besides her punchy prose is the main attraction of her Hole In Our Soul , extends beyond the p’s and q’s of American popular music, but also covers the impact various theories of modernism and art had upon the music’s development. She is . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Dec 2012

Siegel and the Songbook

by Carl Scott

It goes without saying that Fred Siegel should be reading my Rock Songbook, which underlines the middle-class mediocrity of most rock, even as it defends, with respect to music, the low, the high, and even the middle-brow version of the high. He could go to my last post , about the tensions between . . . . Continue Reading »

28 Apr 2012