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Leona, 7, poses inside a labyrinth installation made up of 250,000 books titled "aMAZEme" by Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo at the Royal Festival Hall in central London July 31, 2012.

Five great books you should think about reading in 2016

Books

Need to buy someone a book for the holidays? Let us help. We’ve got the best books chosen by some of our correspondents and editors from Istanbul to Mexico City.

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Creative Career Change

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Unlicensed Therapy

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Devo

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Videogames’ New Wave

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Wilco (The Interview)

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With their seventh record, Wilco (The Album), Wilco has entered the self-referential phase of rock stardom. Back in 2004 the band stopped by to perform and talk with Kurt after the release of A Ghost Is Born. Jeff Tweedy told Kurt, “Music is all about getting to stuff that you can’t tell somebody.”

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Sticky Fingers

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Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister’s favorite album cover of all time is one of Warhol’s notorious designs: The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers, with the fully operational zipper. Produced by Derek John. And Cale reveals Warhol’s inspiration for the Velvet Underground’s signature banana cover.

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Style It Takes

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Cale performs a song from Songs For Drella, the album he wrote with Lou Reed as a tribute to Warhol.

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Warhol’s Soup Cans

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Andy Warhol’s paintings of Campbell’s soup cans might be more recognizable than any other American artwork – and that’s just what he intended. They helped banish the solemnity of painters like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and established him as an artist despite his limited abilities. But why did Warhol start painting them? And […]

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John Cale on Andy Warhol

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Andy Warhol did more than turn groceries into art – he also elevated an obscure band called The Velvet Underground to the rock pantheon. Band co-founder John Cale tells Kurt that Warhol didn’t do it for the love of rock & roll. “I don’t think he liked any of the music, really,” Cale says. “I […]