Books
Pandora’s Box never tosses the reader into a roiling overload of facts and figures, but looks at the horrors of WWI from many different, illuminating angles.
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Susan Sontag wrote short stories as a hobby; she saved more of her enormous intellectual energy for her novels and essays.
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Jazz singer Mark Murphy was just too much for most audiences during that period; too intense, too varied, too unpredictable.
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Dedham native and Boston University graduate Ryan H. Walsh wanted to learn more about the local connections to what he calls his “favorite album of all time.”
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To mark the hundredth birthday of Charlotte Salomon, who is emerging as one of the 20th century’s great artists, come two fabulous volumes dedicated to her work. Read More
It is proof of the translators’ skill that Krasznahorkai’s sentences work as well as they do.
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For all his literary fecundity, Ezra Loomis Pound was also more than a little bonkers.
Read MoreFollow almost any of these police brutality cases to their realpolitik conclusion and you will eventually work your way back to a monstrous truth.
Read MoreJack Taylor is a Beckettian character on the skids; he can’t go on, and yet he goes on.
Read MoreDorothy B. Hughes is one of the finest female practitioners of noir.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues