This list is only 2016 (or close?) publications. Read plenty this year from other years, but other lists, other days. Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, released in 2015, won the 2016 Booker. Deserved. It’s the best book of 2015 and 2016. The overrated Confederacy of Dunces reads like a dictionary compared to The Sellout. In no order: Trouble Boys […]

The best albums I didn’t hate, in 2016, didn’t inlcude much new hip hop. Not sure why. Maybe Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition. Senior rappers comported themselves well, De La Soul, Kool Keith and A Tribe Called Quest making better records than expected, especially the latter. In descending order, after the Spotify List. Albums: Heron Oblivion – S/T […]