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Whether playing together or apart, on this 1981 recording the two saxophonists couldn’t sound more gracefully inspired or more compatible.
Read MorePianist Fred Hersch’s ballad playing is one of the special treats in contemporary jazz.
Read MoreBy Bill Marx and Wen Huang Dissident Chinese writer Liao Yiwu lives near the epicenter of the earthquake in Sichuan province. His home is about 17 miles from the school where hundreds of students were trapped. Miraculously, his building survived, though there are several giant cracks in the concrete stairway. In his immediate area more…
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An unabridged text of an incisive, harrowing, and absorbing eyewitness account of the Gulag has finally been published in English translation.
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The turf war for the bodies and souls of Montana’s Jews makes for an engaging inter-tribal drama.
Read MoreGiven the realities of music in 2016, it’s good to see a glitter-era icon who’s still alive and kicking.
Read MoreGus Kaikkonen has shown himself particularly adept at directing period pieces in such a way that they don’t bog down in their period, but convey the life of their own time into our own.
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After nearly a century, the fierce psychological nuance of Passing remains as relevant as ever.
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When you do this kind of thing it has to be done with bravura and wit — bad poets borrow, good poets steal.
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Visual Arts Commentary: John Singer Sargent — A Particular Sort of Loner