Pop Culture's Lists, Rankings, and Critics

By MICHAEL BERUBE

On my desk at home, next to my list of the 75 greatest love ballads of all time, there's a list of the 100 best novellas written since Goethe. Having been thwarted in my efforts to persuade the music-video channel VH1 to publish my list of the 10,000 best guitar solos in rock 'n' roll, I have turned my attention to smaller units of measure, in another medium -- heroic...

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