Alex Ross, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $30 (624p) ISBN 978-0-374-24939-7
Ross, the classical music critic for the New Yorker
, leads a whirlwind tour from the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss's Salome
in 1906 to minimalist Steve Reich's downtown Manhattan apartment. The wide-ranging historical material is...
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Alex Ross, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-18774-3
In this brilliant collection, music critic Ross (The Rest Is Noise) utilizes a wide musical scale—classical music in China; opera as popular art; sketches of Schubert, Bjork, Kiki and Herb—as a way of understanding the world. Featuring mostly...
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Paul Dini, Author, Alex Ross, Author . DC Comics $7.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0021-3
This tabloid-size title is at once unnecessary and lusciously tempting. On the one hand, it would be tough to find an American reader who doesn't already know the origins of Superman or Batman. Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and the Flash haven'
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Jim Krueger, Author, Alex Ross, Author, Doug Braithwaite, Illustrator . DC Comics $12.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1207-0
The epic battle between hero and villain rages on in this second volume of artist Alex Ross's ambitious tales of the greatest heroes of the DC Comics universe. After Lex Luthor, the Riddler and other villains share a vivid dream in which the...
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Alex Ross, Author, Geoff Spear, Photographer, M. Night Shyamalan, Introduction by . Pantheon $35 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-42240-9
With art that looks like a hybrid of Norman Rockwell and Jack Kirby, artist Ross has become the preeminent painter of superheroes of his generation. This lavish coffee- table tribute puts him into a pantheon as exalted as the superbeings he depicts.
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Alex Ross, Author, Jim Lee, Author, Chuck Kim, Author . DC/Wildstorm $29.99 (233p) ISBN 978-1-4012-1705-1
Although essentially a tie-in to a pop culture hit, this graphic novel isn't bad. Conceived as an integral part of the popular TV show, the book collects a series of weekly online comics that appeared right along with the TV show. The comics...
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Paul Din, Author, Paul Dini, Author, Alex Ross, Author . DC Comics $9.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-56389-911-9
Artist Ross (Mythology
) and longtime collaborating writer Dini (Batman: The Animated Series
) render DC Comics' larger-than-life heroes in an oversized edition showcasing Ross's brilliantly painted, highly detailed artwork. The latest in an
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Jim Krueger, Alex Ross, and Doug Braithwaite. DC, $39.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4012-3185-9
Buried in the frenzied action of DC’s latest all-star extravaganza is an interesting question: the members of the Justice League of America may be sworn to do good, but what good have they done for the suffering masses of humanity? At the beginning...
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Alex Ross. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (784p) ISBN 978-0-374-28593-7
The 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883) is all things to all people in this sweeping cultural history. New Yorker music writer Ross (The Rest is Noise) surveys the ongoing influence of Wagner, whose operas wrapped tales of gods,...
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Alex Ross. Abrams ComicArts, $24.99 (64p) ISBN 978-1-4197-6167-6
Eisner winner Ross (Marvels), in his first solo written and drawn superhero adventure, offers a majestically drawn sequel to a 1966 Fantastic Four story line by comics legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. After a mysterious figure from the Four’s past...
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