Review
Robert Morgan has written a fascinating reconsideration of the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
The heart, intelligence, and the artistry of “Godzilla Minus One” makes it one of the best kaiju films ever made.
A new interpretation of an old fable and a newly reissued fairy tale provide delightful reading for kids — and perhaps good holiday gifts as well.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Biographer Judith Tick is reverent about the singer without falling into hagiography: with honest scrutiny, she asserts the enduring value of Ella Fitzgerald’s achievement for generations to come.
Melissa Broder’s new novel is as amusing as it is bewildering.
This volume is a study of what can happen when two art forms engage in a mutually beneficial conversation.
Murder mystery and farce can coexist in the same play… for a time, at least. Eventually, the two will pull apart, however, as they do in this production.
If you’re brave enough to dip your toes into a musical unknown, there are pleasures a-plenty to be had in this recording, in which Joe Jackson takes us on what purports to be a musicological excavation of the works of a long-forgotten figure of the English Music Hall era.
Three first-rate documentaries at DOC NYC that examine the crimes of the past and the fragility of the present.
Arts Remembrance: Sonny Rollins, Jazz’s ‘Saxophone Colossus,’ Dies at 95