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Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.
Read MoreThe effort to merge Deaf culture with the Book of Job becomes too much a burden for Craig Lucas’s family melodrama to bear.
Read MoreIf you are interested in how the architecture within American movie houses shaped the cinema and vice-versa, this often brilliant tome is an instant classic.
Read MoreDigging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.
Read MoreExit Right is about how six men entered into politics on the left side of the spectrum and wound up immured in varying extremes of conservatism.
Read MoreJean-Guihen Queyras wraps up a Schumann concerto trilogy in style, pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton play with panache and color.
Read MoreWith its new album, Revival, Gozu finally unleashes its own demonic roar.
Read MoreDid Marguerite Duras, who had worked in the French résistance during the war, feel guilty about not having been sufficiently concerned about the Shoah?
Read MoreThe Bangs are masters in sending up the gelatinous sentimentality of popular culture, embracing it at the same time.
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Book Review: “Better Living Through Criticism” — Critical Self-Help
A.O. Scott’s hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in how we articulate the value of the arts.
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