Were you a member of a critically acclaimed indie rock band in the ‘80s or early ‘90s? Check your messages: Somebody is probably working on a book about you right now. After years and years of titles ...

It began in earnest — as Touch and Go Records co-founder Corey Rusk reminisces at the beginning of the engrossing new Jesus Lizard coffee table book titled (in typical Lizard four-letter-word fashion) ...

Storied American noise rock unit The Jesus Lizard originally broke up in 1999, but reunited for a bit between 2008 and 2010, during which they played some memorable shows in NYC and elsewhere. The ...

“When I think of the Jesus Lizard, I think of the greatest band I’ve ever seen,” Steve Albini writes in BOOK, a vividly decorated coffee-table oral history by and about the highly influential Chicago ...

THE CAVE AND THE ROCK (276 pp.)—Raoul C. Faure—Morrow ($3.50). The proper study of mankind may be man, but writers from Aesop to George Orwell have found animals just as handy. Latest to study mankind ...

The great thing about being an obscure novelist is that it doesn’t matter what you write. “I could do pretty much whatever I wanted,” Michael Cunningham remembers fondly, “because nobody was likely to ...

A lizard, french philosopher, and your money walk into a bar. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. Ironically, when it comes to how we make financial decisions, a lizard and a french ...

Anybody who went to see filmmaker David Ayer’s Suicide Squad this weekend who isn’t knee-deep in Rebirth comics and graphic novels might have done a confused double take. “Hmmm, gigantic reptile man ...

‘The Jesus Lizard Book” is a beautiful document of a band that wasn’t afraid to be abrasive, chaotic, brutal and, sometimes, ugly. A sharply designed coffee-table book for a band that left bruises ...