Month: September 2014
In The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, H. L. Mencken comes off as a marvelously mellowed master, his trademark savagery smoothed over, its energy focused on generating a pungently picturesque vision of a vanished America.
Read MoreNever mind all the timeless melodies Glenn Tilbrook’s written: Anyone who can rhyme the name Persephone with “incessantly” deserves immortality for that alone.
Read MoreIn F, vertigo is often palpable. Evil exists. “The terrifying beauty of things” does, too.
Read MoreMayor Walsh Announces Cabinet Level Chief of Arts and Culture. Important step in ongoing elevation of arts in Boston, Appointee led Chicago’s cultural planning process.
Read MoreThe most striking part of The Better Angels is its cinematography. The naked branches on the thick, gray trees are silhouetted against a sky that seems unable to hold sunlight.
Read More“The music itself is quite Gothic. It’s about murder, and death, and God, not all toe tapping stuff.”
Read MoreBoston’s premier outdoor jazz event, the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, returns to Boston’s South End for a fourteenth year this Saturday, with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington back at the helm again as the artistic director.
Read MoreElizabeth Harrower’s In Certain Circles is a stunning novel about class and marriage and power; Can Xue’s The Last Lover is a tedious surrealistic farce.
Read MoreIn this book, Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson explores the (d)evolution of the Republican Party from its founding in 1854 through the presidency of George W. Bush.
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Music Commentary: A Mystery Solved on the 50th Anniversary of the Release of “Queen II”