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Lorelei Ensemble’s latest recording is awe-inspiring.
The Clovehitch Killer is a creepy little movie about a creepy little idea, the parasitic kind that worms through the ear canal and eats away at brain matter.
In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz’s wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs. The volume recently won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry.
Though Al Stewart can’t hit the high notes like he used to, his distinctive, crisp voice is still strong and melodic at 72.
Every performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.
Claire Tomalin narrates her story with a prototypically English stiff upper lip, and a reticence about the personal.
The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
Ilan Stavans’ latest book is an engrossing potpourri of this thinker’s continuing thoughts about language, culture, and the self.
One of the few books that examine the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.
The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues