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Above and beyond Mario Vargas Llosa’s political outlook, his latest novel proves that he remains at heart a master storyteller.
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The centenary of bassist/composer Charles Mingus’ birthday is days away and I am listening to the beautifully packaged and processed and richly annotated 3 lps of Mingus’s Lost Album, recorded live at Ronnie Scott’s London club in 1972.
Read MoreWe learn a great deal about Hayim Nahman Bialik’s life in this biography. But the volume does not live up to its subtitle.
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Despite some storytelling flaws, Unsane is ultimately suspenseful, terrifying, and rather haunting.
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Mostly, indie horror seems constrained, not by lack of funds, but by lackluster creativity and a sort of sloppy artlessness.
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David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.
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In his book, Wolfram Eilenberger has provided an absorbing view of a period in Western intellectual history that was committed to the new.
Read MoreThe pleasures of Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words are the pleasures of being a fly on the wall.
Read MoreAny book in which the fourth sentence is “The world is not sliding, but galloping into a new transnational dystopia” runs the risk of overstating its case from the get-go.
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Cultural Feature: Boston’s “Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide” — Still Going Strong After Three Decades
More than 1,400 writers have been featured in G&LR’s uninterrupted run over the last three decades.
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