Review
Despite a slow first half, “The Devil on Trial” picks up speed and suggests that the truth can be more infuriating than fiction.
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Closing out coverage of the London Film Festival: films from Catherine Breillat, Michael Winterbottom, Luna Carmoon, Robert Morgan, and Daniel Kokotajlo.
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Anna Webber’s latest disc of fascinating arrangements and complex sounds is nothing if not adventurous.
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Will Hermes reveres Lou Reed’s music, and he expounds on his love in this voluminous, well-researched biography.
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The show was proof that Queen + Adam Lambert are quite capable of mixing things up, even as they give everybody exactly what they’ve come to hear.
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A concert whose music served as a prayerful elegy for a world spinning out of control.
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Jack Kerouac’s best work is often driven by a hunger for spiritual nourishment: the soul food his protagonists occasionally find in friendships, in jazz, in oceanic moments of oneness.
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Director Maggie Betts has much to keep in check – a courtroom drama and an exposé of corporate greed and racial politics in Mississippi.
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Guitarist Steve Hackett honored the 50th anniversary of Genesis’ “Foxtrot,” yet this concert didn’t come across as just another night with a tribute band that sports a sole member of the original group.
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Book Review: “Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class”
Dan Canon provides not only the statistics but powerful stories to demonstrate the extent to which plea bargaining has bankrupted the justice system
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