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Jackson Lears’s collection of essays and book reviews gets a few things right in its description of various kooks, oddballs, and mavericks who sometimes succeeded in moving history in their direction. But it gets far more wrong.
Read MoreThe under-appreciated singer-songwriter Tommy Keene is equal parts an aficionado and creator of pop music.
Read MoreDirector Johnnie To has a playfulness found in much Hong Kong cinema. He has found a different way to unfold a story, making clear how money and greed can inform everything, but with plenty of room for humor and for good fortune.
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Nausheen Eusuf’s deep affection for language and sound is omnipresent.
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Errol Morris allows Stephen Bannon to indulge in his vision of how he will save America, with Donald Trump as his agent and himself as the genius manipulating events.
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Samuel Adams, a superb political organizer who helped turn the Boston Massacre into a cause célèbre, was more conservative than modern admirers, including biographer Stacy Schiff, want to admit.
Read MoreMore composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.
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This novel of ideas reads like an essay narrated in the first-person by a self-absorbed automaton.
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The Floundering State of Film Criticism
Ana Rivas sent in this piece on a recent confab at Boston University featuring two film critics – Renata Adler, who for a short time in the ’60s was a film critic for The New York Times and A.O. Scott, who is the current chief film critic for the paper. The conversation contained some interesting…
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