Reading about reading dept.
"There is something very English in the marriage of boredom and catastrophe, and the England that existed immediately after the Second World War appears to have carried that manner rather well, as if looking over its shoulder to notice that lightning had just struck a teacup."
So begins
"Back in the US of A", a NY Times book review by Andrew O'Hagan on a new book on the Beatles, "the superboomer's house band."
Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History
by Devin McKinney
Harvard University Press, 420 pp., $27.95