Rock 'n Roll

From REAKTION

The Monkees Made in Hollywood

Tom Kemper

“The Monkees gets into the vast machinery that goes on behind the scenes of producing perfect pop—still relevant today even if the names and corporations have changed—and does it with a lot of fun.”—Chris Shiflett, Foo Fighters

REVERB

Paper $16.00

Pin-Ups 1972

Third Generation Rock ’n‛ Roll

Peter Stanfield

“The pre-punk bloodline is the one Stanfield’s Pin-Ups 1972 focuses on. His deep dive into the media coverage illuminates the molding of several stars’ images over the space of a few years—in particular Bowie, Roxy, and T. Rex’s Marc Bolan.”—Wire Cloth $22.50

Now in Paperback Electric Wizards

A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present

JR Moores

Heavy music has deserved its own tome but the only thing heavy about his book is its weight—its tone and style are illuminatingly light and wonderfully convivial throughout. Someone get Electric Wizards on the national music curriculum now.”—Wire Paper $22.50

From Rock Legends at Rockfield

Jeff Collins

“For a story begging to be told, Collins does a thorough job, recounting vividly Rockfield’s legacy and session antics from food fights to fisticuffs.”—Classic Rock Magazine Cloth $16.00

Kansas City Star

“[A] stimulating survey of the science of sexual desire… sheds light on a fundamental part of human life.”

Publishers Weekly

“Sex: who doesn’t want to know more about this primordial human drive? Simon LeVay tells all—its biology and the real science behind fantasies, porn, rape, and much more. It’s a fascinating read.”

—Helen Fisher, author of Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

“With Storythinking [Fletcher] invites us on an extraordinary odyssey that enriches understanding of our deep, instinctive impulse to create stories as makers and transformers of our world. Storythinking is nothing less than a cosmological paradigm shift that puts story making and thinking at the center of all that we do.”

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

This anniversary edition features a new preface in which Spivak reflects on the fortunes of comparative literature in the intervening years and its tasks today.

“Halpern has deftly created a dazzling series of windows into the world of Leibniz.”

—Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life

THE LARB QUARTERLY No. 38 SUMMER 2023

Board Of Directors: Albert Litewka (chair) , Jody Armour, Reza Aslan, Bill Benenson, Leo Braudy, Eileen Cheng-Yin Chow, Matt Galsor, Anne Germanacos, Tamerlin Godley, Seth Greenland, Darryl Holter, Steven Lavine, Eric Lax, Tom Lutz, Susan Morse, Sharon Nazarian, Lynne Thompson, Barbara Voron, Matthew Weiner, Jon Wiener, and Jamie Wolf

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Cover Art: The artist (Nobuo Sekine) photographing Phase of Nothingness, 1969, at the 1st Contemporary International Sculpture Exhibition, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Shizuoka, 1969. © Nobuo Sekine Estate, Courtesy of the Estate and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles / New York / Tokyo

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