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How well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.
Read MoreLila is an ambitious book that is deeply flawed and not nearly in the same class as Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead.
Read MoreEach John Oliver monologue takes a different weighty and urgent political issue and deconstructs it with wit, clarity and moral purpose.
Read MorePlaywright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.
Read MoreOtto Dov Kulka’s exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it “the greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi.”
Read MoreThe newly released Live at the Rainbow ’74 set proves that Queen had been slaying audiences since the beginning of their career.
Read MoreTo my mind, with Assembly of the Souls, composer Eitan Steinberg is working in Pulitzer contention territory.
Read MoreThis was a band that took its reunion as a personal challenge to come off as reckless as they did in their prime.
Read MoreAt least waiting for Andris Nelsons to take over the orchestra is done. And we don’t have to bide too much time before we get to hear more from him: his first subscription series with the BSO kicks off on Wednesday.
Read MoreA People’s History of the New Boston takes the “grassroots” view and tries to give overdue credit to the role that community activists and neighborhood residents played in building the “New Boston.”
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025