A trio of new ballet books offer messages of inclusion and acceptance that both celebrate ballet and acknowledge some of its problems.
Children’s Book Review: Music All Around — Picture Books to Play
Two fine books for children that draw on music to deliver inspiring messages.
Opera Album Review: A Baroque Opera — Ripped from 18th Century Headlines
Telemann’s music here is a delight, often resembling, in style, appeal, and high craftmanship, what we find in Handel’s operas and oratorios.
Book Review: “Remain in Love” — The Story of the Talking Heads, Told with Charm
With the beguiling Remain in Love, Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz puts a refreshing spin on a familiar genre.
Rock Album Review: Blue Öyster Cult — Still Defying Norms
The record celebrates everything that has made Blue Öyster Cult such an enduring presence — yet it sounds totally in the moment.
WATCH CLOSELY: “Lovecraft Country” — Blackness, Blackness, All Is Blackness
Lovecraft Country is quite a thrill ride at times, its heady balance of realism and fantasy spiced up with an intoxicating dose of science fiction and time travel.
Book Review: “Panthers and the Museum of Fire” — Creative Upheaval
Brief and incessant, repetitive and spiraling, Panthers & the Museum of Fire offers a illuminating perspective on an internal drama: how trivial moments can become pivotal in the development of a writer.
Book Review: Kathy Valentine — Life Before and After the Go-Go’s
In this satisfying memoir, Go-Go’s bassist and quintessential rock chick Kathy Valentine shares her experiences as a member of the most successful all-girl rock band of all time.
Book Review: “Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back” — “Jews, Write and Record.”
An unabridged text of an incisive, harrowing, and absorbing eyewitness account of the Gulag has finally been published in English translation.
Rap Album Review: Action Bronson — The World’s Rapper?
In Only For Dolphins, Bronson serves up his usual brand of excessive escapism, but it is offset by just enough emotional depth to suggest that he is maturing as a person and an artist.