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This brilliant novel is not only out to subvert narrative expectations, but to undercut the act of reading itself.
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Starring Mads Mikkelsen, “The Promised Land” is an opulent and moving period piece that captures a location and era rarely depicted on the big screen
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If this is a fable, is there a moral?
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This is one of the more engaging pieces of theatre I have experienced in some time.
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At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, in the midst of the usual well-meaning social documentaries and “independent” celebrity tributes, some real cinematic ambition crept in.
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“A lot of books talk about slavery as something that just happened in the South and ended in 1865. I felt like there could be a book about how the North was making more of the profit and was in some ways more responsible morally, politically, and financially than the South.”
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Bertrand Mandico’s “She is Conann” left me buzzing, high on a euphoria of aesthetic excess that represents the true legacy of New Queer Cinema.
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In his short stories, Michael Glenn has a physician’s eye for detail and a psychologist’s insight into the way we think and what motivates us.
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Composer/guitarist Richard Nelson’s followers can count on being surprised at how nimbly he can satisfy their appetites.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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