Celebrate the merriest season of the year with award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski's collection of the most popular and beloved holiday songs of all time.

What does John Cale have that the rest of us don't some gene that engenders infinite restlessness, a rapacious mind that is never satisfied? For nearly 60 years, or at least since he was a young Welshman who moved to New York and joined The Velvet Underground, Cale has been reinventing his music with dazzling and inspiring regularity. Once again, here is Cale, reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. His engrossing twelve-track MERCY...