Review
The newly released Live at the Rainbow ’74 set proves that Queen had been slaying audiences since the beginning of their career.
Read MoreThis was a band that took its reunion as a personal challenge to come off as reckless as they did in their prime.
Read MoreAt least waiting for Andris Nelsons to take over the orchestra is done. And we don’t have to bide too much time before we get to hear more from him: his first subscription series with the BSO kicks off on Wednesday.
Read MoreThe Witch-Hunt Narrative is an extremely important book about an ongoing phenomenon that will not go away anytime soon.
Read MoreContextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.
Read MoreIn F, vertigo is often palpable. Evil exists. “The terrifying beauty of things” does, too.
Read MoreThe most striking part of The Better Angels is its cinematography. The naked branches on the thick, gray trees are silhouetted against a sky that seems unable to hold sunlight.
Read MoreElizabeth Harrower’s In Certain Circles is a stunning novel about class and marriage and power; Can Xue’s The Last Lover is a tedious surrealistic farce.
Read MoreIn the musical Far From Heaven, the pleasure of Cathy’s first-act dream overwhelms the anguish of her second-act awakening.
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