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Love for Nanci Griffith has empowered a hell of a record.
In this promising filmmaking debut of Cord Jefferson, we’re given a too-rare peek in cinema into upper middle-class African-American life.
One wonders sometimes whether the weight of acclaim doesn’t place an author beyond critical reproach. The bandwagon effect.
Samara Joy uncorked her gospel pipes, the likes of which probably haven’t been heard on mainstream secular stages since Aretha Franklin.
Was John Singer Sargent just a talented flatterer of his wealthy patrons or was there more to him?
In this rigorous, timely dance-theater work, the performers provide a challenge to our beliefs and a salve for our hearts.
By focusing on just a few households, rather than surveying all the available examples, this documentary succeeds at its essential (and valuable) goal — to humanize its subjects.
This week’s poem: Kevin Gallagher’s “In the Boroughs of the Nightmare.”
Just in time for Chanukah, here are two books that focus on the Jewish experience in America.
Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary — an immersive visit behind the scenes of a three-star Michelin restaurant — is a savory, irresistible treat.
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