Review
A world-premiere recording of Kurt Weill’s “Prophets” — originally intended as the last act of “The Eternal Road” — with excellent singers, plus Thomas Hampson in Weill’s Walt Whitman Songs.
The Emerson String Quartet concludes its recorded legacy pretty much the way it began it — in musical glory. Robert Trevino and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI’s Respighi has plenty of spirit and heart.
The series’s fierce satiric take down of America’s enlightened white elite is brilliant.
“Bluebeard’s Castle” is a sexy but subversive romance novel steeped in Gothic imagery.
As these two films at the Wicked Queer Doc Fest indicate, being non-hetero-normative in a patriarchal society is unavoidably a political statement.
The MFA’s Fashioned by Sargent alludes — only at whisper level — to the fact that many of John Singer Sargent’s clients represent questionable ideals.
Melinda Taub’s thoroughly enjoyable new novel joins other notable pastiches of Jane Austen’s classic story.
To these eyes, Lauren Groff’s latest novel is her most accomplished yet.
This “Rocky Horror Show” for the Gen Z set contains (at least potentially) enough flash and zap to successfully put across a new take on a campy cult classic.
Tired of the same old animal books? Here’s a series filled with fascinating facts, large and small, about farm animals, and an inspiring tale of the bees of Notre Dame.
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