Gavin Steyn's reading

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff This book is very much a mixed bag between the really insightful and the ...

I've been on a bit of a Charles Rosen kick in the last few months. I made it through Sonata Forms , his book on the history of sonata ...

Charles Rosen's The Classical Style  is one of the great classics (no pun intended) of music criticism, focusing on the music of Mozart...

Graham Greene famously divided his writing output into "novels" and "entertainments," with the latter being more light-w...

I don't really have anything intelligent to say about Mr. Palomar .  It's by Italo Calvino, which means it's sui generis , stran...

Kings of Cool  is the prequel to Savages , and very much of a piece with it.  The same punchy style.  The same lack of depth.  It's a bi...

Liberation Movements  is Olen Steinhauer's fourth novel set in an imaginary Eastern Bloc country; each novel has taken a look at this co...