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John Taylor introduces readers to an amazing array of sensibilities and life histories in a babel of languages from an atlas of nations.
Read MoreOh, to be a lead character in a Borzage movie. You might expire during the final dissolve into “The End,” but man oh man, you will have loved. And you will have been loved.
Read MoreIn this innovative production, Hamlet comes off as Shakespeare’s most successful genre mash-up of tragedy and comedy.
Read MoreJoshua Rubenstein has penned a compact, chilling account of the demise of the Russian tyrant.
Read MoreWesley Savick not only does a fine job of adapting Alan Lightman’s text, but in his role as director he squares the circle.
Read MoreCritic Paul Berman’s problem with the arts plays too significant a role in his work to be written off as but the tin ear of an historian and social thinker with weightier matters on his mind; his misreading of the arts is a fulcrum of his social thinking. The Flight of the Intellectuals, by Paul…
Read MoreAmerican author Robert Stone is attuned to the havoc latent in masculine pride and to the hostility likely to break out for no particular reason between males of our species. Fun With Problems: Stories by Robert Stone, Hougton Mifflin Harcourt, 195 pages, $24 Reviewed by Harvey Blume Though one of our prose masters, Robert Stone…
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A kaleidoscopic small-band adventure led by one of the world’s great clarinetists, and a superbly-played set by Ben Wendel’s dynamic quintet.
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Fanny Howe’s writing pursued, as she put it, “bewilderment as a poetics and a politics.”
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Fuse Remembrance: Kurt Masur (1927-2015)
Kurt Masur leaves behind a complex legacy, one that’s not neatly (or easily) summed up by the caricature of a stern, conservative, Old World German maestro.
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