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The authors have used their research well. Beyond applying an abundance of detail to trace his intellectual growth as well as the trajectory of his emotions, Eiland and Jennings have managed to intimate—though perhaps not to capture—something more elusive: a sense of Benjamin’s aura.
Read More“I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race.”
Read MoreAs a songwriter, Stephen Malkmus specializes in hooks that never quite resolve, melodies that jump in all directions, and lyrics that drop a few enticing references and then move on.
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Flame in a Stable admits the reader into the committed life of a literate, far-reaching, colloquial, passionate, playful, and witty poetic voice,
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Host Elizabeth Howard and artist Halim A. Flowers engage in a provocative conversation around issues raised by art, the criminal justice system, and how it felt to be incarcerated as a minor.
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While the orchestra’s program was almost defiantly canonical, it was played with such lightness and energy that you could forgive its disappointing safeness.
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One of translation’s greatest powers — its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language, and set of conventions and transplant it into another — is a delicate procedure.
Read MoreThis meticulous biography of Anglo-American poet Denise Levertov is the labor of many years and of deep reflection and care.
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This album offers a Baedeker of pianist Ran Blake’s cinematic effects, the mis-en-scene for a narrative musical imagination unlike any other.
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Film Commentary: You Know It When You See It — Desire and “Blue is the Warmest Color”
Without its many steamy lesbian sex interludes tarting up what could otherwise be classified as a routine narrative, would “Blue is the Warmest Color” have garnered so many rave reviews and prizes?
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