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“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”— Karl Kraus
Read MoreIn Van Gogh and Nature, human beings play a supporting role. Sometimes moths, butterflies, and poppies are the stars.
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Falle Nioke has evolved into a kind of cultural ambassador. In the English coastal town of Margate, Kent, he has been praised for his performances of original and traditional compositions on West African instruments.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Our music critics pick some of the standout albums and performances of 2023.
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“What happens when you discover your heroine was a vile anti-Semite?”
Read MoreFor those of you who have never read Marguerite Duras, “L’Amour” is an invigorating place to start.
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A superb new translation in one volume of the two Chéri novellas, regarded as Colette’s masterwork.
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In his writing, in his life, and in his fun, generous, and winsomely wise spirit, the late — but never late for a party — Tom Robbins chose to feel “ridiculously fine” and wanted us to feel the same way.
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Theater Commentary/Review: A Not So Dumb “Month in The Country”
Given the Russian writer’s modernist pedigree, should director/playwright Richard Nelson and translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky be punished for putting some “unevenesses” into their staging of Turgenev’s finest play, “A Month in the Country”? I think not.
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