Arts
Musicians, painters and the stories behind great songs and works of art. Hear how artists live, think and make the things we love.
Arts Library
All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
Art, Inc.: The Essential Guide for Building Your Career as an Artist
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Cinema Speculation: An Entertaining Dive into Film History from the Legendary Writer and Director
Cher: The Memoir
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
Germany: Memories of a Nation
Finding Me: A Memoir
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
I Am Ozzy
Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
How Proust Can Change Your Life
How Music Works
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity
JAY-Z: Made in America
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Man and His Symbols
Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
Light: A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age
My Name Is Barbra
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Me: Elton John's Official Autobiography
On Paper: The Everything of its Two-Thousand-Year History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America
Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
Sonny Boy: A Memoir
Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
The Art of Asking: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
The Architecture of Happiness
The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The (Dodgy) Business of Popular Music
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story