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Gish Jen’s novel about New England small-town life in the new millennium, “World and Town,” has just come out in a paperback. We greeted the hardback edition of the book with a Judicial Review, a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts. It is a good time to highlight the innovative approach again. The aim is to combine editorial integrity with the community—making power of interactivity.
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Intimacy, whether physical or emotional, is continually challenged in Julia Jacklin’s Pre Pleasure.
Read MoreAndré du Bouchet writes the kind of poetry that other poets ponder, perhaps resist or even reject for a while, yet inevitably return to study even if (or because) their own poetics are starkly dissimilar to his.
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“Wildcat” is a biopic that sticks with you for days, bedeviled by questions and revelations.
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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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Although his choice of material doesn’t always work for me, for my money, Kurt Elling is the most important jazz vocalist of the last twenty years.
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For my taste, some of the songs on Kurt Elling’s The Questions simply aren’t challenging or interesting enough.
Read MoreI admire director Terrence Malick for continuing to jettison staid storytelling for the sake of exploring his dense moral vision.
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Max Bruch’s music is smart, strong, crafty, and, often, quite endearing.
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Newport Jazz sold out all three days in advance for the second year in a row, which made scheduling the primary acts across three stages prone to occasional mismatches between space and demand. But it’s still a golden ticket.
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler