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Sleeping Beauty needs not only to thrill us but to carry us somewhere back into its own history.
Hunting the Truth is a handbook on how to become an effective activist and an exciting, often awe-inspiring read.
“It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them.”
So Lucky is a tough, accomplished novel, a book that readers didn’t know they needed.
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.
Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.
Everyone should avail themselves of such opportunities for inter-generational collaboration.
Why has Bernard Weinraub chosen this secretive chapter of Miller’s life as fodder for his play?

Arts Commentary: The Last Laugh — Stephen Colbert, Comedy, and Cultural Resistance