Why do we love to trace an empire's collapse and read every painful detail of a hero's downfall?

Alcohol, anger, infantile banter, and a revelatory roll of toilet paper.

They were about the beast that scratches your face and gives you an infection, then stomps on your foot.

Failure and frustration are equal-opportunity employers in these stories.

Phillips's writing combined soulful sophistication with the anything-is-possible musical ethos of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Dr. Feldberg needs a date so no one will guess he's Gary's therapist.

It occurred to me that maybe music actually springs from the rhythms of walking.

Nicu's Spoon takes the adventurous step of casting a disabled actor in the title role.

Honeyed pop rooted in McCartney and Squeeze.

Emotional purity in both songwriting and singing is what makes Chinese Boxes such a superb album.