Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. He covers the field of classical music, from Renaissance church music to the downtown avant-garde, and has also written about Bob Dylan, Radiohead, and Björk.
Ross came to The New Yorker from the New York Times, where he had been a music critic since 1992. His writing has also appeared in The New Republic, the London Review of Books, Slate, Transition, and Lingua Franca.
He has received two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism, a Holtzbrinck Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, a Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre, and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for significant contributions to the field of contemporary music.
Ross’s first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, was published Fall 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. A cultural history of music since 1900, The Rest Is Noise appeared on the Best-of-Year lists of the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Economist, New York (also voted Best Non-Fiction Book), Amazon.com, and BarnesandNoble.com . It is a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe bestseller.
Ross’s blog (www.therestisnoise.com) has received almost 3 million hits, with a worldwide readership from more than 80 countries.
“Alex Ross’s incredibly nourishing book will rekindle anyone’s fire for music.“
—Björk
“The best book on what music is about — really about — that you or I will ever own.“
—Alan Rich, L.A. Weekly
“A work of immense scope and ambition… a great achievement.“
—Geoff Dyer, New York Times Book Review
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