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Author Mark Cantor has been the go-to guy for jazz film for decades: this authoritative book solidifies his position.
When the identities of the guilty are finally revealed in this new season of a superb “True Detective,” it is terrifying and glorious.
These pieces are an intellectual challenge to the listener as well as a sensual pleasure. They should send saxophonists back to the practice room.
A single listen to The Salt Collective’s album disabused me of my initial skepticism. The recording is as enjoyable and interesting as one would hope for from an effort featuring this gang of eight.
This Week’s Poem: Douglas Rothschild’s “On the EVE of the THREE KINGS”
It was worth driving over 70 miles of snowy roads to be rewarded with such invigorating heat. Bravo tutti.
The holidays and their aftermath are not always a time of cheer for families. Two recent children’s books provide empathy and understanding.
A death is routinely at the center of Claudia Piñeiro’s fiction, but the corpse sparks provocative questions about the way things are, not just an investigation into finding the murderer.
Book Review: “The Geography of the Imagination” — Longing for Something Lost
Touted as “perhaps the last great American polymath,” Guy Davenport had a singular mind; never was an artist more deserving of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius grant.”
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