Review
Given its considerable strength and vitality, Ethel Smyth’s music deserves its newfound place in the limelight. Let’s hope the BSO programs more of her music again soon.
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Three sure-handed debut movies at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, including a documentary directed by Lucy Lawless and features from Thea Hvistendahl and Jack Begert.
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This version of the script may be overreaching, but there is promise in M Sloth Levine’s attempt to infuse gender and personal soul-searching into a spooky ‘cartoon’ mystery.
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Jennifer Bartlett’s fine biography is a capstone to a steady solidification of respect for this innovative poet’s art and legacy.
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It is always a thrill to be in the audience when the legendary American soprano Renée Fleming performs.
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The essays in this book are a critical read for folks who might be fighting prison expansion or construction in their neighborhoods.
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This is a rare script that focuses, equally, on emotional depth and scientific wonder.
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This brilliant novel is not only out to subvert narrative expectations, but to undercut the act of reading itself.
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Starring Mads Mikkelsen, “The Promised Land” is an opulent and moving period piece that captures a location and era rarely depicted on the big screen
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If this is a fable, is there a moral?
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues