The scientific perspective offered by the album art forces the viewer to look through Lorde’s body, but we are also looking ...

In If She Could See Me Now, Lorde declares: “I’m going back to the clay.” Here that the album recalls the Prometheus myth: the ancient Greek story that Prometheus fashioned humans out of mud (or clay) ...

The Man Made of Smoke Alex North. Celadon, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-75789-0 North’s rollicking latest (after The Angel Maker) centers on a serial killer who targets children.