UK’s The Wire magazine, modern music’s arbiter of good taste, recently reviewed John Cage, David Nicholl’s “very fine book” in our American Composers series.

“To the casual cultural onlooker, John Cage is such an instantly recognisable name that you may feel you know more about him than you actually do. . . . One of the more engaging aspects of David Nicholls’s study is the connections he makes with Cage’s personal life, his life outside composition.”