She sounds relaxed on her seventh album, Wildcard, a future-focused album burning her chaotic past like rocket fuel. Lambert and her co-writers use wit to play with country tropes, and they all sound ...

Bukowski’s chatty free verse (and fiction) about disappointment, drunkenness, racetracks, flophouses, lust, sexual failure, poverty and late-life success amassed an enormous following by the time of ...