Review

TV Commentary: Toward a Critique of “The Big Bang Theory”

December 4, 2014
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On this show, thriving on caricature as it does, the chasm between Amy and Sheldon stops laughter long enough to suggest poignancy.

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Fuse Opera Review: BEMF Stages Two Delightful Neapolitan Comic Operas

December 4, 2014
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BEMF’s double bill of two short and comic Pergolesi operas made for an unusual and totally delightful presentation.

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Visual Arts Review: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA — The Beauty of Speed

December 4, 2014
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA is a delightful exhibition dedicated to vehicular speed, mobility, style, and joy.

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Theater Review: “The Little Prince” Dazzles at The New Rep

December 1, 2014
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If you want to expand your heart and mind this holiday season, you couldn’t do better than go to The Little Prince.

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Book Review: Charles D’Ambrosio’s “Loitering” — Slam-Bang Ghost Stories

December 1, 2014
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Charies D’Ambrosio’s short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.

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Theater Review: Viva “The World Fixer” at Austrian Stage

November 30, 2014
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In this fiction and plays, Thomas Bernhard creates fascinatingly repugnant monsters, black holes of egotism that are symptomatic of our spiritual and moral myopia.

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Book Review: Enduring the Unendurable — Philippe Rahmy’s Extraordinary Portrait of Pain

November 30, 2014
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Philippe Rahmy is afflicted with brittle-bone disease: in his superb writing, he takes off from his incurable inherited condition and ventures out courageously.

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Visual Arts Review: The Young Have Come Down With “Warhol Mania”

November 29, 2014
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In 1957, Women’s Wear Daily called Andy Warhol “the Leonardo da Vinci of the shoe trade.”

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Film Review: “We Always Lie to Strangers” — One Part of America, Singing

November 29, 2014
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These are good people who have grown up playing country and pop music and are committed to giving the people what they want.

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Film Review: “The Homesman” — A Western That Rides into Thrilling and Unexpected Places

November 28, 2014
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Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman could have been an old-fashioned Hollywood Western. Thankfully, it isn’t.

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