Commentary
What made the authorities especially eager to tape Lenny Bruce’s mouth shut was his vigorous social and religious satire.
For the anti-gentrification critics, urban deterioration should be left the way it is.
A writer has to write for the now or to write for the ages. Gleason almost always chose the now, but his best moments go deeper.
A response to Ty Burr’s column called “Here’s why Woody Allen is overrated”in yesterday’s Boston Globe.
The Globe tells us that we will be gaining compelling stories. What are we losing? Invitations to think seriously about artistic accomplishment and failure.
Arts and entertainment are one and the same, both trivial– or at least way down the pecking order when it comes to things that are genuinely important.
A.O. Scott’s hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in how we articulate the value of the arts.
The Southern-inflected melee of Harry Crews’ universe is like a Hieronymus Bosch canvas dipped in whiskey and flour and deep-fried.
Author Appreciation: The Fiction of Kent Haruf — Surviving Ordinary Life with Grace
Kent Haruf’s novels remind us that even in the hardest lives, there is joy, often delicate and evanescent, but joy, nevertheless.
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