Books
This is the first in a series of pages in which in one of our critics, working with a young person, comes up with an arts review.
Michael Hofmann nicely captures our age of truthiness and alternate facts and multiple perspectives, the hollowness of everything from the news-cycle to pop-up restaurants, all of the distractions driven by money and advertising.
Michael C. Smith’s new Boston Carnival photo book proves that “Culture Lives Here.”
99 years after Liberty and the News, Walter Lippmann’s hopes for journalism remain largely unfulfilled.
Susan Larson’s The Murder of Figaro is spiced with raunch, witticisms, and behind the scenes verisimilitude of rehearsal life.
We Are All Good People Here is an enormously insightful examination of how dangerous suggestible people can be, to those around them and to themselves.
This fine novel is portrait of Baltimore as a city at war with itself.
In his new book, poet Charles Simic employs his customary strategies, but he seldom achieves the intensity he once did.
Words from George Orwell to live by: “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
Book Commentary: “Portnoy’s Complaint” at 50
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