Victors contribution

Editor-in-Chief

1. SMiLE by Brian Wilson.

Originally slated to be the musical masterpiece of the 1960s, an album that was to have outshone even Sgt. Pepper, Wilson and the Beach Boys ultimately couldn't get it together on this one. Some say drugs, some say feuding between Wilson and Mike Love, some say anxiety�could one twenty-four-year-old musical genius top all four Beatles at their creative peak? After a thirty-seven year delay, this album emerges with an astonishing and heartbreaking "Aye, captain!"

2. Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih.� A tiny village in the Sudan, circa 1969�passion, mystery, murder. Although nowhere near as well known as Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Tayeb Salih's Arabic spin on the myth of "dark Africa" stands among the most engaging literary works to emerge from the African continent.

3. To Have and Have Not (DVD)

A novel by Hemingway; a script by Faulkner; Bogart and Bacall. What more need be said?

4. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda.� Written when Neruda was just twenty years old, this brief collection offers some of the most beautiful, sensuous, and eros-charged poems ever written. Read these poems to your loved one and he or she will melt before your eyes.

5. The Real Buddy Holly Story (DVD)� In the eighteen months before his death on February 3, 1959, the day the music died, Buddy Holly recorded a seemingly endless stream of classic rock & roll songs. This movie, hosted by Paul McCartney, is the best movie on Holly and includes interviews from friends, bandmates, and musicians like Keith Richards, alongside rare footage, outtakes, and even excerpts from the first ever Beatles recording, a 1957 cover of Holly's "That'll Be the Day."