Books
Taken together, these entertaining early novels present a noteworthy collection—particularly for Samuel R. Delany fans.
My biggest gripe is with a central tenet of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction: communication between generations is impossible.
The Library of America has done its part to applaud Arthur Miller’s 100th birthday with a handsome 3-volume set of his plays.
Clive James gets the most out of whatever’s on the page and isn’t shy about making larger connections.
Jay Parini has provided an important slice of literary and cultural history as well as a portrait of a man.
Tram 83 mirrors the most sordid and chaotic features of contemporary African cities, in which non-Africans also remain intimately and often deviously involved.
Although there is a strangely dour tinge to this biography of Peggy Guggenheim, Francine Prose is ultimately fair.
it’s useful to be reminded that Ronald Reagan, the revered All-American icon, was more simulacrum than savior.
Boston Ballet’s reconstructed versions of Yakobson’s Pas de Quatre and four Choreographic Miniatures were a revelation.
Arts Remembrance: Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95