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Body and Soul generates a whirligig of passions — joy, frustration, pleasure, and rage.
The author’s aim is to render William Blake’s complex vision understandable to novices. It is a lucid effort, though the book presents a disappointingly conventional overview of the artist’s achievement.
“Figures of Speech” is a kind of aesthetic/political injection: its messages are put across by pieces that seamlessly blend a number of genres, including sculpture, music, graphics, and film.
Americans is a winningly-programmed, strongly-realized effort.
Jaun Cirerol has been accused of idealizing desperation. He disagrees. “I am well-anchored,” he responds.
I consider composer Frederick Rzewski the most profound and persistent explorer of how to address injustice through the use of sophisticated compositional tools.
Summer of Soul is two hours of rapturous entertainment and pointed political commentary — neither of which has gone out of style 52 years later.
The Tribeca Film Festival wrapped last week — here’s a selection of the most promising documentaries on view.
To my ears, veteran guitarist John McLaughlin is both a jazz and a rock player, and more besides.
Author Interview: Aaron S. Lecklider on the Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture
The reader comes away from Love’s Next Meeting with an awareness of the rich history of homosexual culture existed long before the Stonewall riots in the summer of ‘69.
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