Books
A newly published book of translations and two upcoming Boston-area stage productions confirms the enduring elemental power of Federico García Lorca.
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On the Couch is an extraordinary coffee table book for anyone interested in “recumbency” and how the couch became the icon of psychoanalysis.
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The critic settles too comfortably too often on a familiar trope — Ireland’s sense of promise squelched.
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Big Deal differs from other Bob Fosse biographies in its focus on the dances themselves.
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Rob Sheffield seemed to have promised a whale of an original tale but delivered only a few goldfish.
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“Resistance is futile. But resistance seems necessary.”
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Being able to comfortably shift gears between “high” and “low” culture is one of the easiest ways in which a contemporary critic can gain the reader’s trust.
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L. M. Brown has also written poetry, and she brings some of that lyrical know-how to her promising first novel.
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Ethan Mordden’s volume openly defies anyone to dismiss the American musical as mere fluff.
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Book Commentary: “Fahrenheit 451” and Cultural Betrayal
It never occurs to him that, by championing just the great works of Western Civilization and consigning pop culture (notably science-fiction) to the flames, he’s exercising his own pernicious brand of censorship.
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