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Jazz Review: A Trio of Superb Trio Albums

May 12, 2018
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Good things come in threes.

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Book Review: “So Lucky” — A Body-Slam of Empowerment

May 12, 2018
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So Lucky is a tough, accomplished novel, a book that readers didn’t know they needed.

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Visual Arts Review: Go Worlds Away at SoWa Boston

May 12, 2018
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Both galleries have successfully paired photographers who work in parallel idioms and who, through simple visual details, deliver a vivid sense of place tinged with memory and nostalgia.

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Concert Review: Pharoah Sanders Quartet at Blackman Auditorium

May 11, 2018
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Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.

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Visual Arts Feature: “Schön and Schön: From Generation to Generation”

May 11, 2018
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Everyone should avail themselves of such opportunities for inter-generational collaboration.

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Theater Interview: “Fall” — Probing Arthur Miller’s Secret

May 11, 2018
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Why has Bernard Weinraub chosen this secretive chapter of Miller’s life as fodder for his play?

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Jazz CD Review: “Seraphic Light” [Live At Tufts University]

May 10, 2018
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The players are striking out into the unknown: you may find the journey inspiring and you may sometimes find yourself lost in the woods.

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Theater Interview: Adaptor Neil Bartlett on Seeing Your Own Plague in “The Plague”

May 9, 2018
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Albert Camus brings a bracing response to thinking about the worse that is missing in so many of our current dystopias.

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Book Review: “The View From Flyover Country” — Sounding the Alarm

May 9, 2018
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If you want to understand what is going on in the United States today, journalist Sarah Kendzior is a good resource.

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Book Review: Tale of Two Short Story Collections, Schutt and Ortese

May 9, 2018
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Schutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.

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