Search Results: The Slip online

Book Review: “The Art of Classic Planning” — How to Build Beautiful and Enduring Communities

April 1, 2020
Posted in , , ,

By so memorably reestablishing the fundamentals of urban design and planning, The Art of Classic Planning will be a strategic addition to any architecture or urban planning library.

Read More

Punk Rock Album Review: The Replacements — “Tim” Redux

October 23, 2023
Posted in , , , ,

These new mixes and remixes of the source material, outtakes, and scintillating live cuts show how The Replacements were one of the greatest bands to ever not care much about being one.

Read More

Film Review: “Crimes of the Future” — Let Them Eat Microplastics

June 10, 2022
Posted in , ,

If you find David Cronenberg’s cinematic philosophy on bodily abjection/assimilation and the artistic process intellectually stimulating, then you’re in for an intoxicating return to form from the man whose name is synonymous with the body horror genre.

Read More

Book Review: “The Dream Merchant” — Gambling with Power and Possibility

April 20, 2013
Posted in ,

Part of what made “The Dream Merchant” so compelling, and at times, harrowing, a read for me are its themes: love, loss, rags and riches, to be sure, but also the theme of aging, and associated loss of power and possibility.

Read More

Theater Review: Theatre Nohgaku — Noh Plays With and Without an American Accent

April 19, 2016
Posted in , ,

Zahdi Dates and Poppies demonstrates that the formal aspects of Noh can be adapted to contemporary American themes.

Read More

Book Review: “Disquiet” — A Compassionate Litany of Tragedies in the Middle East

July 28, 2021
Posted in , ,

This is a timely novel, a lament for the multicultural harmony that has disappeared from Mesopotamia as well as a dire warning: fundamentalism is on the rise, not just in the Middle East but in the West as well.

Read More

Coming Attractions: Popular Music in July 2010

July 1, 2010
Posted in , , , ,

July Music/Musica en Julio/Musica em Julho By Thomas Samph With the temperatures peaking into the 90s in New England, here is some pop music that’s meant to be enjoyed in the heat. These acts (with the exception of one) all have their roots in warmer places: Latin music infused with funk and jazz, Spanish electronic…

Read More

Book Review: “The Word Exchange” — A Generous Gift

August 8, 2011
Posted in ,

For everyone who feels the attraction but lacks the study, THE WORD EXCHANGE is a huge gift. It’s the most generous sampling I’ve seen of poetry translated from Old English and collected in one volume.

Read More

Book Review: The Sad Tenderness of Patrick Modiano’s “Dora Bruder”

May 30, 2015
Posted in , , ,

Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.

Read More

Film Review: “The People We Hate at the Wedding” — Middling Marital Mayhem

November 23, 2022
Posted in , ,

The People We Hate at the Wedding is far from one of the best entries in the comic wedding canon.

Read More

Recent Posts

Popular Posts

Categories

Archives