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Book Commentary: Literary Legacies — Children’s Literature

2020 and 2021 saw the deaths of five titans of children’s and young adult literature. Here’s to revisiting old “classics” and discovering new ones.

By: Cyrisse Jaffee Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Beverly Cleary, children's literature, Cyrisse Jaffee, Jill Paton Walsh, Joanna Cole, Norton Juster, Tomie de Paola

April Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Film, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Bill-Marx, Chick Corea, Gerald Peary, Harvey Blume, I Care A Lot, Plays, Proud Songsters, Susan Miron, Tim Barry, Two Legends

Book Review: “The Search for John Lennon” — Going Down the Wrong Road

In her search for John Lennon, the author follows her fancy and picks and chooses which rocks she wants to look under, all the while giving herself the space to wax poetic on whatever theme moves her. It’s an appealing approach. Too bad then that the book is a let down.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Rock Tagged: John Lennon, Lesley-Ann Jones, Pegasus Books

Book Review: Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” — Closing the Circle, Perfectly

This is a great work, more linear than Tom Stoppard’s earlier dramas, yet filled with such intelligence and compassion that it will be read and seen for years and years and, perhaps, over time be regarded as his richest, most haunting play.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Holocaust, Leopoldstadt, tom-stoppard

Poetry Review: “Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth” — Yusef Komunyakaa, A Poet Who Expresses the World

It is always a pleasure to read the poems of a writer who has an ear for language and an eye for form, a voice of their own, and an interest in a world beyond the reach of their own person.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, James Kates, Yusef Komunyakaa

Book Review: “Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home”

Endpapers is an invaluable gift to literature, mainly but not only for the quotations, details, and beguilingly written scenes of publisher Kurt Wolff’s life scattered throughout

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alexander Wolff, Atlantic Monthly Press, Endpapers : A Family Story of Books, Escape and Redemption, Franz Kafka, German literature, Kai Maristed, Kurt Wolff, War

Book Review: “Last Chance Texaco” — Rickie Lee Jones Remembers

Of all the biographies of female musicians I’ve read in the past year, Last Chance Texaco is the most transparent about the vagaries of fame.

By: Chelsea Spear Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Rock Tagged: Last Chance Texaco, Rickie Lee Jones, Tom Waits

Author Interview: Talking to Miss Pat about her “Reggae Music Journey”

Miss Pat, reggae’s Chinese-Jamaican matriarch, reflects on a life in riddim.

By: Noah Schaffer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Miss Pat, My Reggae Music Journey, Noah Schaffer, Patricia Chin

Book Review: “Klara and the Sun” — Dystopia Yes, But There’s Hope

Klara and the Sun is a dystopian novel worth recommending: it is a thought-provoking joy to read.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Kazuo-Ishiguro, Klara and The Sun

Book Review: Alex Ross’s Dizzying, Engrossing, and Sometimes Overwhelming Exploration of Wagnerism

For Alex Ross, Wagnerism is as profound and far-reaching an aesthetic ideology – for good, ill, and all degrees in between – as any.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Alex-Ross, Richard Wagner, Wagnerism

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