Tim Riley

Tim Riley’s latest book is What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time (2019), co-written with Walter Everett, from Oxford University Press. He recently launched the riley rock report audio newsletter. See his personal website, timrileyauthor, for details.

A Poet of the Anticipation of Joy: On Laurie Winer’s “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical”

Tim Riley reviews Laurie Winer’s “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical.”...

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

How Much Faith Is Left?: On Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere”

Tim Riley reviews Warren Zanes’s “Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska.’”...

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“Cats Are Indescribably Wonderful, Shostakovich’s Fugues Less So”: On Elizabeth Wilson’s “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia”

Tim Riley reviews Elizabeth Wilson’s new biography “Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia.”...

TIM RILEY

MUSIC

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY