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Claudia Rankine comes off like a disgruntled but interesting guest at a dinner party who keeps turning the conversation back to subjects that make others uncomfortable but are well worth talking about and seriously examining.
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This blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.
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Vivian Gornick is an elegist of the transformative experience of reading and writing, what she calls “the companionateness” of books.
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Delia Owens suggests that the only forward movement for her outsider-protagonist and “swamp trash” is to become curators of ecological/cultural museums in the very places where they once struggled for an independent life.
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Russian Doll is television made to be savored.
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Wherever Robert Hass is, the poet drinks in (and reports to us) the details of place and human activity.
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The Lyric Stage production of Anna Christie does right by Eugene O’Neill’s brilliance.
Read MoreThe ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams’ talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.
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Pianist Ran Blake’s performance was like a long dreamscape of personal reflection and meditation.
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Arts Commentary: The Author of “The Jazz Bubble” Responds
“What is new since the ’70s is a much broader ideological shift in the business world itself, and the way in which it came to approach the jazz world as a result.”
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