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Recent changes in Boston’s media landscape do not bode well for substantial coverage of the arts. What do those in the arts world think about what is happening?
Read MoreMr. Selfridge drives me nuts because the storyline, the rise of a mercantile empire, calls for edgy Darwinian conflict rather than paternal benevolence sprinkled with layers of powered soap opera.
Read MoreDavid Allen Sullivan has no combat experience here or abroad, but his verse offers a poignant vision of the sights, sounds, and passions of the Iraq War. Matt Kraunelis replicates the landscapes of his hometown, planting the reader’s feet firmly in the Merrimack Valley.
Read MoreMaybe Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg had no interest in the requirements of a good book — just its potential use as a marketing tool.
Read MoreMaria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.
Read MoreIsrael has genuine enemies without, to be sure. But “The Gatekeepers” leaves the impression that it has no less mortal an enemy within.
Read MorePianist Donal Fox is a classical musician by training, and in style, with a yen for improvisation and, one might add, an unwillingness to let things be.
Read MoreThis anthology, made up of Michael Wolfe’s superb translations of ancient Greek epitaphs, begins in prehistory and ends in the sixth century C.E.
Read MoreBut if a dramatist butchers everything – what will can be put in its place? In the case of “M” it is nothing; nothing I can see or understand.
Read MoreThe serious intentions of “The Company You Keep” are ultimately undermined by the parade of stock cameos.
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