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This collection of ten items by the Soviet-era great manages to be more than a parade of mere curiosities.
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You will have to be up for this short story collection ; you will learn a lot about a corner of the world that’s rarely captured, and is done so here exceptionally well.
Read More“Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity” by Hal Niedzviecki. (City Lights) By Adrienne LaFrance A word to the mohawked and tattooed, to those who reject cell phones and popular music. Yes, you, the self-proclaimed non-conformists: You’re not special. Or maybe more aptly, you’re just as unique as the droves of people trying…
Read MoreThe protagonist’s version of barroom existentialism works as an unofficial précis for the struggle to make it through another day of being human.
Read MoreUnfortunately for Genius, film is a visual medium, not a talking heads snore fest.
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Becoming the Song charts Denise Ho’s political awakening, her transformation from Cantopop icon to human rights activist amidst the backdrop of an increasingly turbulent Hong Kong.
Read MoreWAM’s Chamber Music Series is a model for what chamber music performance ought to be: excellent musicians performing in a small space with a rather informal air to the proceedings.
Read MoreTiger Style! blows by like a whirlwind — wordy, frivolous, and ultimately unsatisfying.
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Surprisingly, for a band whose hypnotic music throughout the documentary provides a continuum with menacing and meditative extremes that mesh with near-mathematical discipline, it’s the human elements that leave the greatest impressions..
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Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth” — Always Nice But Rarely Incisive
Like a Hallmark movie, Dinners with Ruth is an engaging and entertaining story, with episodes of great pathos. It is an upbeat, easy-to-read gift book, which is undoubtedly what its publisher intended.
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