The only artist to play in Luck Ranch’s Saloon, Kevin Morby showed his hand as a man of the people. Morby opened with four songs played solo, laughing after the city name dropping track “Hail Mary”: ...

Gate of Lilacs is, in Clive James’s words, a ‘quinzaine of rhapsodies’: a poem of fifteen parts in blank verse that is also a critical essay on Proust. ‘His book,’ says James, ‘big for a book, is ...