Review
In the hands of Rodin, the human form was shaped to tell an emotionally and psychologically complex story.
Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.
The effort to merge Deaf culture with the Book of Job becomes too much a burden for Craig Lucas’s family melodrama to bear.
If you are interested in how the architecture within American movie houses shaped the cinema and vice-versa, this often brilliant tome is an instant classic.
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story is Doug Stanhope’s disarmingly funny, unexpectedly sweet memoir.
Exit Right is about how six men entered into politics on the left side of the spectrum and wound up immured in varying extremes of conservatism.
Jean-Guihen Queyras wraps up a Schumann concerto trilogy in style, pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton play with panache and color.
With its new album, Revival, Gozu finally unleashes its own demonic roar.
Did Marguerite Duras, who had worked in the French résistance during the war, feel guilty about not having been sufficiently concerned about the Shoah?
Book Review: “Better Living Through Criticism” — Critical Self-Help
A.O. Scott’s hurrah for criticism should be savored by anyone interested in how we articulate the value of the arts.
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