Books
Donald Levering’s poems exhort us to be less left-brained, to side more often with intuition, creativity, flights of fancy.
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What Ayad Akhtar reveals, with stunning detail and a passion and an urgency rarely seen in American fiction, is that his is a story marked by a loneliness similar to that found in Melville, Dreiser, and T.S. Eliot, among others, and that puts him squarely in their company.
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The Rise is the rare cookbook that does more than offer a culinary and educational journey. It inspires.
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Sasha Geffen takes on some heady ideas about music and gender performance, but they approach the subject with a nimble writing style.
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Dan Callahan has crafted an entertaining and illuminating guide to understanding Hitchcock’s relationship with some of the most iconic actors of the day.
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Filled with galoots of all kinds, the novel might not have any true reason for existing, nor may it have any reason to end. But heck, it’s a good, old-fashioned, medicine show of a read.
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It’s as if Moshfegh is testing the furthest limits of a “red herring”: what if everything is red and everything is herring?
In his mostly successful filmic adaptation of Martin Eden, Italian director Pietro Marcello transposes with ease London’s Oakland novel to the seaport of Naples.
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At his best, Matthew Schultz’s abilities as a writer transcend the small, tight canvasses he has prepared for himself.
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Dance Review/Commentary: “The Grand Union” — The Story of the Accidental Anarchists of Downtown Dance
This fascinating book, and the rich literature of films and writings around it, have helped me feel a bit more positive about these shrunken times.
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