Review
A trio of reviews of volumes on structures on paper and in the world.
The album’s message about the triumph of A.I. is unconvincing, but the music, with its variety of sounds and tempos, its zigzaggy shifts, written and improvised, is totally engrossing.
The 2025 Oscar nominated documentary shorts indict the justice system.
It is a shame that international film festivals cannot be made accessible to wider audiences, but the trend toward online gatherings, such as the Online French Film Festival, is a good start.
An excellent new album by the ad hoc ensemble Kenny Wheeler Legacy. It is impossible not to think of how the great trumpeter Kenny Wheeler would have sounded over these updated arrangements with such top-drawer musicians and excellent production.
Besides giving us a multi-faceted portrait of Robert Frost that leaves the poet tantalizingly inscrutable, Adam Plunkett does what the best biographers of great writers do: send us back to the work with renewed curiosity and heightened appreciation.
Among this novel’s merits is its powerful celebration of the will to live, dovetailed with an evocation of the love members of a family have for one another, even under the most brutal and apparently hopeless circumstances.
There are similarities between Randall Blythe’s music and his prose; both acknowledge the inescapable turmoil, darkness, and tragedy that bedevils everyone.
In this compulsively readable novel, a Ukrainian Jewish woman does what she needs to survive in the nationalistic, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic Stalin-era Soviet Union.
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