Review
Malena Ernman and Ecstatic Ensemble bring three millennia of music into fresh focus in a compelling vocal programme that asks whose work we remember—and why.
Rebecca Gibel and Rachael Warren deliver potent performances in a true-crime drama that confronts political violence, personal responsibility, and a family’s enduring grief.
Kevin Gallagher’s volume bridges Tang Dynasty China and contemporary Boston, finding in poetry, friendship, and wine a humane response to a world in turmoil.
Spanning three timelines, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s ambitious drama pairs intimate stories of repression and desire with grand cinematic spectacle.
Phaidon’s meticulous facsimile revives the playful chaos of Warhol’s 1967 experiment in publishing, though new additions intrude on the original’s aesthetic.
At the MFA, a long-overdue retrospective traces six decades of paintings and suspended abstractions shaped by nature, grief, Black experience, and an unwavering commitment to art.
The jam-band veterans mixed ’70s soundtrack classics with sprawling originals, movie-inspired costumes and a giant smoking bong at their Boston Halloween bash.
Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon” and Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s “Eroica” make a forceful pairing in the pianist’s fierce, illuminating new album.
In “The Pope Against Nuremberg,: historian Gerald J. Steinacher examines how Catholic Church officials shielded war criminals—and placed institutional interests above moral accountability.
By David Mehegan This minimal memoir reminds me of a backyard clothesline, festooned with socks, shirts, pants, dishtowels, suspenders, underwear, bras, new things and old, all in various colors and shapes, flapping briskly in the wind. The Chessboard by Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Translated from the French by Ruth Diver. Other Press. 191 pp. Paper. $16.99. Jean-Philippe…
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