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This week’s poem: Sam Cha’s “Ode: a portrait of god as a photograph of Gaza”
Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.
It was all intense, bracing, and urgent jazz in Austin last week. I don’t know how all y’all spoiled New Yorkers keep your heads from exploding.
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
This nuanced study in domestic malfunction is as universal as it is heartbreaking.
An absorbing novel that builds steadily, not to a shattering or violent conclusion (all the violence is in the past or offstage) but to a quiet release that is humane and persuasive.
It is on the universal theme of identity that “A Different Man” resonates most eloquently, demonstrating how who we are is not fixed but chosen, a mask we don whether it fits or not.
Two closely watched films in Toronto were dark dramas that couldn’t have been more different.
“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” might better be described as the best of Bird on Savoy.
Arts Remembrance: Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith’s finest and most memorable roles drew on her genius for dramatizing the emotional complexity of outsiders.
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