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Despite its title, this YA novel would be best described as an exercise in magic realist satire. Those looking for heaping helpings of the affluent will be disappointed.
A conspicuously inviting account of Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, and a welcome surprise: Aram Khachaturian actually wrote a pretty good piano concerto.
One thing, among others, that sets Jason Isbell apart from his country scene contemporaries is that he isn’t afraid to break the all-American code of manly stoicism.
Musician Interview: Rick Berlin Talks About His New Album “WTF!?,” His Upcoming Show, and Turning 80
Rick Berlin is about to triple dip in the area of major achievements. April 19 marks the release of the Nickel & Dime Band album WTF!?, it is the date of their performance at Brighton Music Hall, and it also marks Berlin’s 80th birthday.
In three books of oblique self-reflection Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explores and exposes the artistic and intellectual thresholds that have been central to his life and to the life of his mind.
Initially, Antonio Muñoz Molina’s resonant novel seems to be the study of the moods and challenges of a man waiting for the only person who gives his life meaning.
Prices for Broadway tickets are out of control. But that’s not stopping people from buying them — provided they get to see the right Hollywood stars.
The value of “On Frost and Eliot” is sending the reader spinning out of its own text and back to poems by two of the major poets of the 20th century, each of whom has suffered from the vagaries of fashion, both in popularity and neglect.
Film Music Commentary: Why “The Odyssey” Should Have Been a Silent Film