Month: September 2014
Otto Dov Kulka’s exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it “the greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi.”
Read MoreThe newly released Live at the Rainbow ’74 set proves that Queen had been slaying audiences since the beginning of their career.
Read MoreTo my mind, with Assembly of the Souls, composer Eitan Steinberg is working in Pulitzer contention territory.
Read MoreThis was a band that took its reunion as a personal challenge to come off as reckless as they did in their prime.
Read MoreAt least waiting for Andris Nelsons to take over the orchestra is done. And we don’t have to bide too much time before we get to hear more from him: his first subscription series with the BSO kicks off on Wednesday.
Read MoreA People’s History of the New Boston takes the “grassroots” view and tries to give overdue credit to the role that community activists and neighborhood residents played in building the “New Boston.”
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.
Read MoreThe Witch-Hunt Narrative is an extremely important book about an ongoing phenomenon that will not go away anytime soon.
Read MoreContextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.
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Music Commentary: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest versus French Quarter Fest