Sociology
Last updated: May 23, 2025
The best books on Conservatism and Culture, recommended by Sam Tanenhaus
Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review from 2004 to 2013, explains how the American right reinvented itself as a cultural counter-revolution and selects five books as backgrounders to conservatism.
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Running with the Devil: Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
by Robert Walser -
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Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent
by Amber R Clifford-Napoleone -
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Black Sabbath's Master of Reality
by John Darnielle -
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Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014
by Ian Winwood and Paul Brannigan -
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True Norwegian Black Metal
by Peter Beste
The best books on Heavy Metal, recommended by Keith Kahn Harris
The best books on Heavy Metal, recommended by Keith Kahn Harris
Metal music, developed in the sixties and seventies, is notorious for its dark and disturbing imagery and its aggressive sound. But there’s nothing to be afraid of, says sociologist and fan Keith Kahn-Harris: it’s all part of the mythmaking of metal.
The best books on Education and Society, recommended by Alison Wolf
KCL Professor Alison Wolf is an authority on education and the labour market. She recommends books on education and society, highlighting Icelandic pastoral neo-myth Independent People
