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Poet and professor Jed Rasula makes the case for The Waste Land‘s lasting revolutionary impact in his engaging and insightful, if occasionally discursive, study.
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The talent at Club Passim’s Nanci Griffith night represented at least two generations: it was a nice, low-key salute to the singer/songwriter, who played the venue often in the mid-’80s.
Read MoreReaders inspired to take a listening journey from Gioia’s historical perspective will benefit greatly from his delineation of jazz’s various forms.
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Nick Prueher, together with his co-host Joe Pickett, is the founder and curator of the Found Footage Festival, a traveling show that takes the very worst of random VHS tapes and puts them all together into one two hour show. With the festival now in its fifth incarnation, Prueher took some time out from preparing…
Read MoreIn his exploration of history, Jack Beatty suggests that World War I, as we know it, was an improbable event.
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The documentary supplies plenty of deserved admiration for its haggard but gentle subject, but it doesn’t tell us enough about the enduring value of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing.
Read MoreBeginning next month, local venues will be positively overrun with reunion shows representing five decades of Boston bands — without doubt the largest reunion event in the history of the Boston scene.
Read MoreA new book gives a philosophical analysis of American culture’s obsession with nonsense.
Read More“Even in a terrain as epic and mythic and exotic as the Sahara, you cannot run away from the weight of your past.”
Read MoreIf James Madison was so verbose that his draft version of the First Amendment could be cut in half, then he can hardly be called an artist with words.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025