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“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”
Read MoreJess Foster’s clever script takes the trope of “cars are like women” to its logical, though unexpected, extreme.
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A rare Black female instrumentalist band leader, whose improvisations on the harp were the equal of any horn, Dorothy Ashby deserves a respected place in jazz historiography.
Read MoreThere are hundreds of studies to be analyzed and many experts who could have been interviewed in depth, but both authors have chosen to write breezy books that can be characterized as “journalism-lite.”
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Tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman’s work is customarily full of subtle surprises, akimbo with shifts and side-trips. This new recording, with a sextet, is no exception.
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“POTUS” supplies plenty of political amusement as it pits savvy, competent women against the blithering males running the American government.
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Sitting through Deep Water is like being trapped at an endless, sodden string of dinner parties that don’t go very well.
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Ocean Filibuster draws on a marvelous fusion of myth, song, free verse, and science to explore why we are standing at the frightening edge of the cliff of our planet’s survival.
Read MoreI used to be skeptical of della Robbia sculpture but, after taking in the recently opened exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, I changed my mind.
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger