Books
This substantial collection of the writings of classical music critic Michael Steinberg evokes a time when critics educated, provoked, and helped build cultural life.
Jean Trounstine’s debut blends hard-won insight with high drama in a prison story of guilt, resistance, and survival.
Judith Grohmann’s biography restores a complex cultural force too often reduced to muse and myth.
In this volume, Gregory Orr revisits a lifetime of poetic concerns with grace, though not always with urgency.
The author of “Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs” talks about Nicks’s enduring mystique, her influence on younger artists, and the challenge of choosing just 50 tracks.
Michael Krielaars’ portrait of Soviet musicians reveals art shaped—and warped—by fear, ideology, and longing.
All too often, Devin Johnston’s poems remain at the level of reportage.
“Making Art and Making a Living” assembles colorful tales of ingenuity while skirting the economic inequities that make them necessary.
Neige Sinno’s “Sad Tiger” turns a devastating childhood experience into a fearless, searching work of moral and psychological clarity.
Marjorie Garber’s case for poetry as resistance proves more fanciful than persuasive.
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