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In this entertaining satire of empire, Christian Kracht makes use of a nihilistic magic realism, without the sweetness one normally associates with that mode.
Read MoreIn “Art,” playwright Yasmina Reza uses theater to explore how powerfully we defend our fears and rationalizations.
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For me, about half of the compositions here successfully reflect the artistic visions of the painters that inspired the music.
Read MoreNobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.
Read MoreIsraeli dramatist Savyon Liebrecht’s new play A Case Named Freud is her most ambitious and dramatically satisfying yet.
Read MoreThis first group of mavericks all have their roots in the 1920s, but they demonstrate that George Gershwin’s way wasn’t the only way.
Read MoreThe Dirty Dust is a novel of almost unbelievable invention, humor, pathos, eloquence, and fury.
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Here’s a trio of organ trios from a new generation of players indebted, but not chained, to the classic jazz format and style that has been dominant since Jimmy Smith in the ’60s.
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Performed 1600 times in Paris, then forgotten, Hérold’s brilliantly witty, Le pré aux clercs shines again in a splendid recording.
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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Straddlers, Part Two
I would like to think that there are more composers working today who think of themselves as beyond category.
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