Review
A relaxing family vacation story morphs into a quietly riveting character study.
Music Review: “Someone/Anyone? A 50th Anniversary Tribute to Todd Rundgren’s Something/Anything?”
Someone/Anyone? is packed with lots of great music and makes a strong complement to the album it compliments, Something/Anything?
With Richard Davis, director Ramin Bahrani found an old-fashioned fraud, a paunchy American grifter worthy of a story by Mark Twain.
Unlike musicians who operate on the surface and create a beautiful veneer, pianist Lennie Tristano’s music asks harder questions.
In our intersectional age, the stories of the fools of Chelm belong on the shelves of any child with a taste for the ridiculous and — with the clarity of kids — an ability to see through self-delusion.
Edward Loder’s well-crafted Raymond and Agnes (1855) captures much of the eerie glow of its Gothic model, Matthew Lewis’s once scandalous novel, The Monk.
Temptations 60 celebrates the band’s 60th anniversary, and it strikes a careful balance between looking backward and staying grounded in the here-and-now.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
The author of The Resisters returns with a timely collection of stories about the connections and contradictions linking America and China.
This is an extraordinarily beautiful book, its present tense prose creating “an atmosphere of literature,” in Virginia Woolf’s words, its honest probing as illuminating as anything you will read about what it means to be Jewish.
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