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Tony winning playwright Joe DiPietro does a commendable job of dramatizing the true-life confrontation between Margaret Chase Smith and Joseph McCarthy while they were both serving in the United States Senate.
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A magical realist romp of a novel with a dollop of poignancy by the great Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov.
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If Fernando Huergo’s band of A-list Boston players sounded especially inspired, it was certainly in no small part due to what he was giving them to play.
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Musa Al-Gharbi’s provocative book undercuts the left elite by pointing out the hypocrisy of its well intentioned rhetoric. The “woke” live comfortable lives because of the very inequities they condemn.
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Rachel Kushner’s latest novel is mélange of vignettes, stand-alone or linked flash essays, and portentous bits of wisdom.
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The New York Film Festival’s Revivals section offers a preview of valuable recent restorations. Even if these superb movies don’t all make it to American theaters, they’re likely to pop up on physical media or VOD.
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This is a work of towering, masterful, sustained cinematic rage set at the dawn of the Reagan Era.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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This week’s poem: Sam Cha’s “Ode: a portrait of god as a photograph of Gaza”
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Projects like “Polinature” overcome reams of bureaucracy, reinforced by government inertia, in order to improve our environment in admirably cost effective and efficient ways.
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