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Children’s Book Reviews: Stories for Kids about Empowerment, Protest Movements, and Multiculturalism
A trio of books for kids about combating injustice.
“Spooky Action” succeeds at its ‘unreasonable’ mission — to supply poetry that sears the mind, charms the heart, and uplifts the spirit.
A three-movement concerto for violin and orchestra, “Dependent Arising” fuses the worlds of heavy metal, punk rock, and 20th-century classical composition into a furious, frenetic, sometimes tortured thirty-minute whole.
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Ultimately, then, we’ve got something special here: a fresh take on some canonic works by a conductor and soloist whose bread-and-butter is this very fare.
Aharon Appelfeld’s final novel is haunting meditation on how to deal with past hostilities that are all too present.
The horndog plot of this wild comedy: two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation
Three gruesome films by debut directors put the horror back in vacui.
Karina Rykman’s rookie recored, “Joyride,” delivers a beguiling blend of pop smarts and psychedelic proclivities.
Film Commentary: The Heights and Depths, the Rise and Fall, of Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”
In the end, what strikes me most about “Vertigo” is its melancholy, its aura of grief, its mood of inevitable, irredeemable loss.
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