Books
My biggest gripe is with a central tenet of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction: communication between generations is impossible.
Read MoreThe Library of America has done its part to applaud Arthur Miller’s 100th birthday with a handsome 3-volume set of his plays.
Read MoreClive James gets the most out of whatever’s on the page and isn’t shy about making larger connections.
Read MoreJay Parini has provided an important slice of literary and cultural history as well as a portrait of a man.
Read MoreTram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.
Read MoreAlthough there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.
Read Moreit’s useful to be reminded that Ronald Reagan, the revered All-American icon, was more simulacrum than savior.
Read MoreBoston Ballet’s reconstructed versions of Yakobson’s Pas de Quatre and four Choreographic Miniatures were a revelation.
Read MoreAntoine Volodine is a master of the prolonged, very prolonged, tongue-in-cheek spoof. But he is also dead serious.
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