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The more-than-satisfactory appeal of Traces is to see these gifted athletes perform time-honored circus skills – the attempt to make the performers look like televised rock stars falls flat.
Read MoreThe excellent E-Team documents a remarkable effort to investigate the abuse of human rights, an endeavor that, for the most part, goes unheralded in our mainstream media.
Read MoreThe BSO played with palpable enthusiasm. Andris Nelsons conducted with characteristic energy. There was, by the end of the evening, certainly, quite a bit about which to be happy.
Read MoreHow well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.
Read MoreLila is an ambitious book that is deeply flawed and not nearly in the same class as Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead.
Read MoreEach John Oliver monologue takes a different weighty and urgent political issue and deconstructs it with wit, clarity and moral purpose.
Read MorePlaywright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.
Read MoreOtto Dov Kulka’s exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it “the greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi.”
Read MoreThe newly released Live at the Rainbow ’74 set proves that Queen had been slaying audiences since the beginning of their career.
Read MoreTo my mind, with Assembly of the Souls, composer Eitan Steinberg is working in Pulitzer contention territory.
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