The Texas Rangers don’t have a particularly high profile. That’s partly because of their name. Clubs tied to states evoke vague geographic links, almost as if they were floating in space. The Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies aren’t closely associated in the public mind with Phoenix or Denver. Nor do the Rangers seem tightly connected to Dallas-Fort Worth. Lack of success is also a problem. The Rangers, who were born in 1961 as the Washington Senators, have never won a World Series.

As promised, here’s a slightly expanded version of the review I started writing for the NYTBR before learning that it had already been covered by someone else. I just want everyone to read this wonderful book. I expected Natalie Zina Walschots’ Hench (William Morrow, hardcover, $27.99) to be a high-concept, light-hearted punch-up, the literary equivalent of leaning back and putting your feet up on the desk of superhero movie franchises. It surprised me completely.

Last week, it turns out, was the internet’s collective breaking point with Ted Lasso’s third season. Whether it was Slate’s Sam Adams reflecting on the “civil war” among fans or Vulture convening a whole roundtable of critics to dissect its “major character flaw,” the public discourse around the show formally took a turn toward judgment as the season headed into its final act. It’s fitting, then, that “International Break” is a crossroads of sorts for two of the season’s most troublesome storylines.

Remember when I called last week’s episode “less viscerally disturbing and more wickedly entertaining”? So much for that. “The Fire Burns On” may be the shortest episode of The Curse, clocking in at only 38 minutes, but it feels like one of the longest. There’s still dark humor here, certainly, but the prevailing emotion is dread. This is an episode packed to the brim with evil vibes. Let’s start near the end, with the scene that has remained unpleasantly lodged in my memory since I watched it: Abshir’s chiropractor appointment.

Tracks: 1) Glad All Over; 2) All Of The Time; 3) Stay; 4) Chaquita; 5) Do You Love Me; 6) Bits And Pieces; 7) I Know You; 8) No Time To Lose; 9) Doo Dah; 10) Time; 11) She’s All Mine. REVIEW It is extremely easy to laugh off the so-called «Tottenham Sound» (which, to the best of my knowledge, was never represented by anybody other than the Dave Clark Five) as a clumsily marketed attempt to build up a commercial counter-proposition to the Mersey Beat — in fact, this is precisely what all the hip-minded artists and their fans had been doing for half a century.