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The script’s suggestion of mythological violence elevates Eyes Shut. Door Open. above the formulaic “dark domestic secrets revealed at a family reunion” plot line.
In Van Gogh and Nature, human beings play a supporting role. Sometimes moths, butterflies, and poppies are the stars.
Ernie Smith’s rich baritone and playful lyrics have found a New England champion in the Rhode Island band Soul Shot.
It is nice to know that there is someone as cultivated and enthusiastic about constitutional history as Professor Akhil Reed Amar.
In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker’s John is a haunting feminist drama about women and madness.
Dark Places fumbles and stumbles as it tries, but fails, to follow all of the possible solutions to the whodunit.
Few people are familiar with the achievement of nineteenth century African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge.
We will always need critics to show us how literature works by revering it rather than interrogating it as if it had committed a crime.
Arts Commentary: In Memoriam, Michael Tilson Thomas (1944-2026)