JamesMarcus

James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and five translations from the Italian (the most recent being Dino: The Life and Films of Dino De Laurentiis and Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror). He has contributed to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, the Nation, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He also written about jazz, pop, and classical music for Salon, The Oregonian, and WBUR Online Arts, and is currently editor-at-large at The Columbia Journalism Review. He blogs at www.housemirth.blogspot.com.

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Reflections (1)

• Hard to distinguish between such jewels....

  Posted: 2 months, 1 week ago in response to The Beatles Best Three Albums

  For me, the answer keeps changing. "Revolver" has the palpable excitement of a sonic breakthrough--they had thrown in the towel on playing these songs live, and went wild in the studio. "Tomorrow Never Knows" still holds up as a psychedelic high-water mark, despite the crude technology used to achieve it. But even a song like "I'm Only Sleeping" is full of expressive bells and whistles. But I love the sheer sprawl of the "White ... more