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Religion is false, unscientific, and morally dubious, and any discussion that doesn’t take that as its starting point will end up going astray.
Read MoreUltimately, “The Elimination” is less a literary effort than an act of witness by both writer and reader.
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This is another visit to the world of Spinal Tap. I had some good laughs, and that might be enough.
Read MoreAscending Light is, by far, the most serious orchestral score of Gandolfi’s I’ve heard and it succeeds to a considerable extent thanks to its expressive honesty.
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The problem with The Ghost at the Feast is that the story it tells undermines its final argument. If America blundered by staying at home during the interwar period, it is blundering even more now by going relentlessly abroad.
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Put Bill Charlap in that camp of brilliant jazz originals who have plied their trade by playing songs by other people and making them definitively their own.
Read MoreIn some essential and large way, novelist Colm Tóibin gets Elizabeth Bishop right.
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The ascendancy of digital life is acknowledged as unshakable, but in these essays Sven Birkerts offers useful insights into how serious writers can carry on.
Read MoreA front-page story in the Boston Globe arts section last Sunday reminds us that the Pollock-Matter Affair is alive and well and moving to Boston. One of the biggest art world controversies in decades, this perfect storm of paint, press hype, and cultivated invective swirls around a group of Jackson Pollock-like art works that filmmaker…
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Book Review: George Scialabba’s “Only a Voice” — Time to Roll Up Our Sleeves
It’s good to discover that George Scialabba is as lively as ever and that “Only a Voice” is filled with provocative arguments that make the reader want to argue right back.
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