Review
Colm Tóibín travels back to ancient Greece in House of Names, a vibrant retelling of the tragedy of the House of Atreus.
Read MoreLarge parts, if not all, of this well played, eclectic disc should appeal to various tastes in modern improvised music.
Read More4000 Miles is charming, insightful, and moving, an enjoyable anthropological study of contemporary American life across the generations.
Read MoreThe program’s goal is to educate young people about writing arts criticism.
Read MoreDenis Johnson sees that New Age thinking is a response to something very American, very late-twentieth-century—namely the precariousness of identity.
Read MoreThis time that we’re getting a too-sweetened take on Hasidism, and maybe of Jewish Orthodoxy in all of its manifestations.
Read MoreIn his profound new book Age of Anger, historian Pankaj Mishra finds the key to Trump-worship.
Read MoreLope de Vega’s classic story of how the powerless stood up to authority — and won –deserves better treatment than clumsy caricature.
Read MoreMatisse said his objects were his “working library,” sources to mine for formal qualities and their ability to evoke an emotional response.
Read MoreMortals would be foolish to miss the ASP’s version of Shakespeare’s Dream.
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