Review
Jazz band Dirigo Rataplan explores what could be described as ‘chamber expressionism.’
There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.
A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.
In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.
One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.
Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.
This is an opportunity to take in the early stirrings of Tennessee Williams’ talent as a playwright.
His beautiful sound is undimmed by time, his sensitivity to nuance is intact, and his choice of virtuoso partners was a delight.
Not all of the production’s choices pay off, but Hamnet is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind play that strikes at a universal sense of longing.
Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
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