The appeal and the limits of Mod

I’m currently reading Paul “Smiler” Anderson’s engrossing Mod Art, a history of music, graphics, fashion, art, and mod design from the 1950s through the ‘90s. Highly recommended. As I have Mod on the brain (yet again) and am facing some deadlines, I’m revisiting this review I wrote a few years back of The Sharper Word: A Mod Anthology, edited by Paolo Hewitt.

I recently finished The Sharper Word: A Mod Anthology, a gathering of writing devoted to the history of the Mod lifestyle edited by Paolo H...