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Arts Remembrance: RIP Agnès Varda — The Most Important Woman Filmmaker Ever?

March 29, 2019
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“The world is in very bad shape, but cinema in a way is a peaceful life.” — Agnès Varda

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Concert Review: The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra plays Wagner—Superbly

November 20, 2015
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The biggest takeaway from the evening was the superb quality of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s playing.

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Jazz CD Review: “The Genius of Eddie Jefferson” — Performed by Allan Harris

May 24, 2018
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Singer Allan Harris clearly loves Eddie Jefferson’s music and performs it with sincerity and chops.

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Book Commentary: The Three Percent Solution

July 23, 2007
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By Bill Marx Fiction in translation deserves all the notice it can get, but it doesn’t do anyone any good to patronize writers and readers by duplicating the happy talk that is turning people off of blurb-ridden book reviews in the mainstream media. My friend Chad Post, formerly at Dalkey Archive Press, has begun a…

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Film Review: “White Riot” — The Superb, Sadly Relevant, Story of Rock Against Racism

October 19, 2020
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Director Rubika Shah ends her film on this high note, but no one watching could conclude that the struggle is over

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Film Review: “She Is Conann” — A Sapphic Tragedy Through and For the Ages

February 2, 2024
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Bertrand Mandico’s “She is Conann” left me buzzing, high on a euphoria of aesthetic excess that represents the true legacy of New Queer Cinema.

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Classical Music CD Reviews: Juan de Arriaga’s Orchestral Music, Lortzing Overtures, and Boieldieu’s Piano Concerto et al.

February 27, 2019
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Francois-Adrien

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Dance Review: Swans’ Return at Boston Ballet

May 3, 2016
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Even the hippest of us can succumb to a deep longing for harmony, lush orchestration, and magic.

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Film Review: At the Fantasia International Film Festival, Part One

August 26, 2020
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The Mortuary Collection is a dark diamond in the rough of this year’s Fantasia so far, a canny ode to horror history that pays respect to its elders without appearing dated or derivative.

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Poetry Review: “Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania” — A Playful Polish Epic

October 17, 2018
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In his exhilarating translation of Pan Tadeusz, Bill Johnston captures Adam Mickiewicz’s wild fluctuations of register and brilliant associative riffs. The volume recently won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry.

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