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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
D. H. Lawrence’s final poems confront mortality with mysticism, sensuality, and hard-won clarity.
Dan Simon’s debut novel blends polyphonic storytelling with keen attention to the natural world and its emotional echoes.
The Claypool Lennon Delirium release a surreal, sharp-edged concept album about empathy, algorithms, and the high cost of efficiency.
Director Kent Jones explores aging, ego, and New York’s literary ghosts in a wry, performance-driven drama led by Willem Dafoe.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center vice president of education discusses the growth of Essentially Ellington, the rise in student playing, and the organization’s push for wider access.
Raffaella della Olga prepares manual typewriters the way John Cage prepared pianos, using their percussive power to completely subvert their original purpose.
A brisk, galvanizing portrait of “Democracy Now!”‘s Amy Goodman and the stubborn fight for adversarial journalism.
The smoke drifting over the set is a metaphor for the mind-fogging rhetoric of Willy Loman’s phony boosterism. He has been adrift in an American dream that was a lie all along.
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