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George Orwell strikes me as a man who was easy to love because he had a tenderness in him that runs like a stream throughout these letters and makes you feel, as you read, how much you would have liked to know him.
Read MoreA lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.
Read MoreMotti Lerner’s characters succeed in making both the secular and ultra-religious life appear rewarding and believable.
Read MoreVIDA, an association of women in the literary arts, has released its fifth annual tally of the number of women critics in major literary publications as well as the number of works by women being reviewed.
Read MoreThe 64,000 question is, if the artists’ concerns gravitated to the Marathon Bombings, why did “Interference”‘s press releases and the program cite Picasso’s “Guernica”?
Read MoreAs for pulling out themes from Bill T. Jones’ gathering of tales, well, the bedrock of human existence seems to be very much on his mind — life and death, landscape and memory.
Read MoreI believe a Bauhaus-type approach might help lead to needed reform in the teaching of creative writing.
Read MoreThis death trip romance is powerful, weird, and intoxicating — until its final scenes.
Read MoreSHUFFLE Concert has invented their own distinctive rules to performance, and their innovative approach, with its inspired programming, has been a hit.
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler