
Requiem for a world war
Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo shows how four great 20th-century composers captured the horrors of conflict.
ByDiscover the best music books, with the New Statesman’s expert reviews, from biographies to pop histories.
Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo shows how four great 20th-century composers captured the horrors of conflict.
ByThe songs he wrote with Elton John may be works of art. His bloated memoir is not.
ByLeah Broad’s Quartet restores the pioneering work and colourful lives of Britain’s finest female composers.
ByIn 1981, the singer sensed his future fame – and retreated. Nebraska, his darkest and most personal album, was the…
ByThe star producer’s supremely vague manual on creativity does nothing to explain his craft.
ByIn their glory days magazines such as NME and Melody Maker defined youth culture – but the quality of the…
ByNew Statesman writers and guests choose their favourite reading of the year.
ByIn his account of being “saved” by love and religion, the U2 frontman’s sincerity overpowers the scorn of his critics.
ByThe New Statesman’s selection of essential recent releases.
ByIn Let’s Do It, the musician and journalist reveals how ragtime, jazz, blues and swing still shape today’s popular culture.
ByTaking us through the contents of his attic, the Pulp frontman shows there was always more to him than ironic…
ByUneasy with his fame and fiercely private, the post-rock pioneer left behind a musical legacy of extraordinary beauty.
ByTwo new books about our relationship to song prove there will always be new ways to write about music.
ByFrom politics and science to history and pop, the essential books for the year ahead.
ByThe year's essential reading in 20 titles.
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