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From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture.
The Art of Ill Will
Donald Dewey
(New York University Press, 2008)
If you're suffering from election season withdrawal, check out this collection of American political cartoons. Dewey traces the general importance of these works as well as the impact of specific cartoonists like Thomas Nast, James Montgomery Flagg (the creator of the iconic Uncle Sam image) and Doonesbury creator Gary Trudeau.
- Grace Duggan
Gyorgy Kurtag
Arguably the greatest living composer, Kurtag has as distinctive and varied a style as his compatriot Ligeti (who died two summers ago). The next time you're in the music library check out his only large scale orchestral composition "Stele," or listen to his fifteen movement String Quartet op. 44, performed last Sunday by the Keller Quartet.
- Andrew Throdahl
Bottle Rocket
Wes Anderson, 1996
University of Texas graduate turned quirky film hero Wes Anderson's first film, Bottle Rocket stays true to his now iconic brand of offbeat humor while steering away from Darjeeling Limited's visuals before narrative style. A killer nineties soundtrack and the staple Wilson brothers make Bottle Rocket a must Wednesday night study break.
- Melissa Marshall
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