Features

• KEVIN YOUNG: Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois's The Anthology of Rap

• HEATHER HAVRILESKY: Emily Herbert's Lady Gaga: Behind the Fame, Maureen Callahan's Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga, and Lizzy Goodman's Lady Gaga: Critical Mass Fashion

• GARY GIDDINS: Lewis Hyde's Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership

• VICTOR LAVALLE: Stephen Davis's LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour

• JOSHUA KOSMAN: Norman Lebrecht's Why Mahler? How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World

• JOHANNA FATEMAN: Sara Marcus's Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution

• ERIC ORMSBY: John Bevis's Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds, North America, Britain, and Northern Europe and the British Library's Secret Songs of Birds: The Hidden Beauty of Birdsong Revealed

• PETER TERZIAN: Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell's For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis, Johnny Morgan and Ben Wardle's The Art of the LP: Classic Album Covers 1955–1995, Suzette Newman and Chris Salewicz's The Story of Island Records: Keep on Running, and Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz's Five Hundred 45s: A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record

• ALEC HANLEY BEMIS: Kristin Hersh's Rat Girl