Review
Nothing in this over-lengthy work refers to whales, the ocean, or even the fishing industry.
Read MoreWe learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik’s life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.
Read MoreDirector Asghar Farhadi’s most stringent judgments generally fall upon members of his own sophisticated, worldly cohort.
Read MoreAlex Beam generates interest via his portrait of frenemies Edmund Wilson and Vladimir Nabokov as brainy but flawed human beings.
Read MoreThis is more interesting than a sweeping survey, it is a portrait of an African-American musician whose career peaked in the Swing Era.
Read MoreDespite one’s aspirations to another kind of reality, for Pierre Reverdy one is forced to return to one’s fetters.
Read MorePianist Denis Kozhukhin does right by Brahms and an all-Saint-Saens disc that, at its best, is a winner.
Read MoreGustavo Dudamel takes over the reins of the Vienna Philhamronic’s annual New Year’s concert; a disc of chamber music by Andre Previn.
Read MoreThe Boston Camerata’s lucid production placed emphasis on music and movement and a chiaroscuro-inspired use of light and shadow.
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