Philip Clark

Ian Penman’s brief book takes us around the French composer’s life three times

He can be remembered as a time-traveler through American music whose presence changed everything

David Browne’s latest book pivots around 1961

Even if jazz has developed stylistically in ways the jazz saxophonist might not have foreseen, its founding attitudes are enduring

In Lou Reed: The King of New York, Will Hermes seems unusually well attuned to his subject, while resisting any temptation to soft-pedal