Review
In addition to being a clever paranormal thriller, Something in the Dirt is a brilliant commentary on our burgeoning world of content creation.
I feel that I have lost a dear friend whom I met through profoundly heartfelt recordings and, in the form of interviews, inspiring self-portraits.
In his poetry, Houman Harouni has peopled a world with voices that are well worth listening to.
The advantage to listening to the recorded Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite is that on disc pianist Jason Yeager writes beautifully for septet: the textures he evokes in his arrangements are curiously varied and invariably moving.
Vince Guaraldi isn’t the heaviest of jazz pianists: he played at a time when McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans were omnipresent. But his tunes, his gently humanist approach to music, meant that he reached listeners that others couldn’t or didn’t.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is miraculous, in that it’s a Marvel movie that doesn’t come across as a link of sausage plopped wetly out of the Disney grinder.
Revelations continue: a composer best known for his sonatas and concertos (the Four Seasons) is a master of vocal music as well.
Sometimes works that major artists withheld — like songs that are not deemed worthy of release —are best kept in the vaults.
Paul Fisher’s back-and-forth tease about John Singer Sargent’s sexuality starts out as intriguing, then becomes distracting, and finally irritating as the biographer never quite closes in on his targets.
Book Review: Three Splendid Volumes Filled with the Cool, the Wicked, and the Amazing
It’s hard to convey what a benison these books have been to me, as I’ve read them in my narrow, monkish bed late into the night.
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