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This year, many of the books we loved most used music as a lens through which to examine broader issues of politics, history, and identity — whether it was the story of capitalist circulation as heard by Joshua Clover in the Modern Lovers’ “Roadrunner,” Hanif Abdurraqib riffing on everything fromor Eric Harvey exploring depictions of African American life in Eighties pop culture.
I read a few of the books on this list and John Lurie's memoir, A History of Bones, was better than all of them. Seems like a pretty big oversight to leave that one off the list.
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