Commentary
Whatever Rachmaninoff’s conflicted feelings about writing symphonies were, there’s nothing ambiguous about the content of his Second Symphony. From start to finish, it’s a marvel of melodic freshness and brilliant instrumentation.
Whatever the Supreme Court determines will alter the world of artists, writers, and musicians for decades to come, a world that has already been dealt a financial blow by the economic pressures of the internet.
What’s up? Several public and private agencies have changed their graphic identities and even names.
It isn’t exactly news that the genocide of Native Americans was a model for Hitler, but it hit with fresh force in The U.S. and the Holocaust.
Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.
A superb new translation in one volume of the two Chéri novellas, regarded as Colette’s masterwork.
Television is the new art cinema, chock full of superb examples of storytelling across multiple genres.
The U.S. and the Holocaust leaves a vital question unanswered: Is this the kind of nation we want to live and worship in?
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More than 1,400 writers have been featured in G&LR’s uninterrupted run over the last three decades.
Book Review: “Folk Music — A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs”
At points Greil Marcus’ digressive style can seem like nervy brilliance, at others, idle whimsy. What ennobles the book is the critic’s love for his underlying subject: the soulful search for a truer America.
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