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Donning his full wispy beard and Southern-gent regalia, Colonel Sanders appears as a pimp and seer in Haruki Murakami's beguiling new novel...

Two books chronicle the post-punk scene with vivid images.

The title Killed: Great Journalism Too Hot To Print evokes the romantic notion of rogue journalists chasing stories that their employers'...

Chuck Klosterman is the kind of guy who calls Rod Stewart "the single-greatest male singing voice of the rock era" and really means it. To people...

Nick Cave is one of the more interesting songwriters making music today, but would you pay 12 dollars for his lyric sheets? Aside from a weird...

Nick Tosches is a brilliant writer, a scrupulous researcher, and a skilled biographer. Sometimes he's even all three at once. With...

Many people have attained celebrity, but it's the rarest of them who make the leap to the status of folk heroes. If fame in the most general sense...

Saul Garamond comes home to his London apartment to find his father murdered and himself under arrest. While grieving in his jail cell, he is...

As comics literature goes, only a handful of books can top Howard Cruse's Stuck Rubber Baby, a fictionalized memoir of growing up gay in...

If there's an organizing principle to Hunter S. Thompson's new Kingdom Of Fear—and whether there is could be debated—it's the...