Review
A three-dimensional portrait of one of the most powerful and eloquent leaders of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
Here are some wonderful offerings to get you through the gloomy months ahead, including under-sung and under-seen horror baubles that you may have missed.
One of pianist Edward Simon’s strengths is his ability to be simultaneously romantic and clear-headed, precise and suggestive.
Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.
Ludwig Hohl belongs in the line of such lucidly contentious thinkers as Karl Kraus, Pascal, and Lichtenberg, commentators whose writing oscillates between the traditions of literature and philosophy.
The range of Kurt Elling’s repertoire is astonishing and his program at Jimmy’s was commensurately ambitious.
This anthology, for all its occasional sadness, is optimistic about the future of immigration to America.
The selection of foreign films on offer at the BFI London Film Festival was of a very high quality.
No woman, I’m willing to bet, could have filmed the sex scenes in Red Rocket. She would have cracked up laughing or thrown up.
Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”
Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.
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