Books
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Read More
This was an artist who approached his singular craft with equal measures of exuberance and precision.
Read More
Shakespearean’s version of the Bard comes off as somewhat Monty Pythonesque — we are usually marching along with “Men Men Men.”
Read More
In this deeply enlightening study, Anthony Alan Shelton aims to set the record straight about how mask culture developed in Mexico as well as in Andean cultures.
Read More
No writer, historian, or filmmaker ever took me nearly as close to Abraham Lincoln the man as did Stephen B. Oates. I have always been indebted to him for that.
Read More
The essays in this excellent volume consistently show that nostalgia is about something, and it matters.
Read More
Host Elizabeth Howard talks with poet and performer Kyle Ducayan, executive director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, about the purpose of poetry.
Read More
Put bluntly, Mathematics for Human Flourishing is quite possibly the most profound meditation on mathematics I have read.
Read More
In Maria Baranda’s poetry there is the constant oscillation between beauty and ugliness, elegance and terror, the empowering journey and the overwhelming nightmare.
Read More
Book Review: Elizabeth Warren and Alexander S. Vindman — Gifted with a Moral Compass
The idea of America is elusive and sometimes, like right now, in danger of disappearing. That is why I have found myself turning for comfort to two books that can give us some perspective as to how to move forward.
Read More