Books
Chopin and His World establishes multiple new starting points for further studies of one of the world’s greatest composers, yet it can be read with pleasure by people who merely(!) love the music.
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The late Amos Oz relished the latent anarchism in Jewish holy texts — full of debates, arguments, challenges.
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Rev William Barber II has effectively demonstrated again and again what he often calls “fusion politics” across lines of race, age, and religion.
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The Barefoot Woman is lyrical but also informative and ethnographic, as much a memoir of a mother as it is of her way of life.
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Jack Taylor’s world is very much our world and his despair is our despair.
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This volume is clearly critic Nate Chinen’s resounding response to the “jazz is dead” chant.
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Sophisticated Giant paints a convincing picture of an extremely charming, intelligent, resilient, and talented man.
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America: The Farewell Tour and American Pyschosis are well worth taking to heart — both to provide provocative perspective on what is happening and to spur us into action.
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Diane Williams’s brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.
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“I still remember; I sat in his class, and I felt my future changing as he spoke.”
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues