Review
“After the Hunt” churns up issues that feel several years behind the curve (hello 2007 and Harvey Weinstein).
This is far from a conventional sports drama: it is a study of a man’s struggle for sense of personal worth and relevance
Two new non-fiction books offer important information for young readers — about the fight for reading and learning about their bodies.
The Junction Trio offered the coolest show in town — an afternoon of experimental music that highlighted their virtuosity as individual players and as a unit.
“The Endless Week” is a brave, uneven, at times brilliant swathe of prose. Experimental? For certain. Perhaps the only way to write an Internet novel is by looking from the inside out.
Jennifer Ann Redmond’s sympathetic approach to Diana Barrymore’s disastrous life is valuable because it rejects the poor-little-rich-girl tropes. She was more than a debauched debutante or fallen starlet.
All in all, this is a crisp, entertaining, and, so far as I can see, an accurate account of the last acts in Henri Matisse’s career.
For the artist Andrae Green, where land and sea meet is not a line, but an immersion.
Arvo Pärt’s ubiquity in concert halls and on disc for much of the last fifty years suggests that he’s got plenty to say to our cultural and historic moment.
The play eventually packs a wallop, but it drags its feet at the start.
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