Review
“PoemJazz” is a project where music and poetry reinforce each other, where the declaimed poetry works like the sung line of a song — though Robert Pinsky never sings or pretends to.
More than the threat posed by the ghost, “Presence” is desperately terrified of ambiguity.
The publication of “There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas” is especially welcome and necessary at this time.
One of translation’s greatest powers — its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language, and set of conventions and transplant it into another — is a delicate procedure.
“Enigma” is as unlike the standard sports documentary as a Cybertruck is to a F-150.
In a production filled with emotional intensity, Audra McDonald delivers a powerhouse portrayal that elevates a somewhat uneven staging.
The power of cinema persists at the Boston Festival of Films from Iran.
Few could doubt this satire’s relevance, given the alarming results of November’s election: a convicted felon, whose minions lean into racist and sexist tropes, is back in the White House.
Another excellent recording from the “Rossini in Wildbad” festival, with spellbinding vocal performances by Congolese tenor Patrick Kabongo and other powerful young singers.
Adapting such a monumental work, a novel that is loved by so many, is both ambitious and risky.
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