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Charlie Kaufman crafts worlds where people find love in unlikely places, and lose love so easily you’d think they actually want to be miserable.
Read MoreBeethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.
Read MoreAbraham Karpinowitz offers a salutation of the heart to his beloved city of Vilna.
Read MoreIn his best screenplays, Graham Greene explored the idea of the protagonist as anti-hero well before it became a popular trope in the 1950s and ’60s.
Read MoreAre people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated?
Read MoreThe actors’ infectious energy and absolute dedication to imaginative play-acting help make Arabian Nights spellbinding.
Read MoreSome pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
Read MoreThese live recordings capture Weather Report’s sound during its most celebrated years.
Read MoreWith this excellent volume, Robert Tombs offers further proof that there should be no variance between good history and good writing.
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Fuse Remembrance: Kurt Masur (1927-2015)
Kurt Masur leaves behind a complex legacy, one that’s not neatly (or easily) summed up by the caricature of a stern, conservative, Old World German maestro.
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