Review
This first-rate performance highlights the special attractions of the “half-serious” operatic genre.
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Forty years down the line, looking both backward and forward with its latest formation, Gang of Four still knew how to live a bit dangerously.
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Never mind the faint of heart, Mimi Cave’s first feature isn’t for people with weak stomachs.
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Despite some occasionally far-fetched situations, Inventing Anna tells a fascinating story about conning the upper class.
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Alfred McCoy’s brilliant history examines the evolution of world orders leading up to Pax Americana and the current decline of the United States.
Read MoreVisual Arts Book Review: “Florine Stettheimer: A Biography” — One of American Art’s Greatest Enigmas
The volume’s overarching goal is to restore Florine Stettheimer to what the biographer sees as her rightful reputation as one of the great American artists of the 20th century.
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Boston’s 15-year-old Guerilla Opera releases a recording of a fresh take on the old Grimm Brothers tale, to haunting, ritualistic music for four singers and four players.
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With their shifting textures and compositional variety, the relatively short pieces show the ways — in this case mostly gentle and lyrical — five musicians can fruitfully interact.
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Korean writer-director Kogonada’s meditation on life and how it’s lived is dreamy, haunting, profound, and deeply moving.
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Book Review: From Rome in 63 BCE — A Warning for Our Perilous Political Moment
This most timely new translation of Sallust’s The War Against Catiline describes the ancient version of a phenomenon we will recognize instantly: a cold-blooded grift transmuted into terrorism posing as patriotism.
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