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Classical CD Review: Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky from MusicAeterna

March 7, 2016
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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and conductor Teodor Currentzis are two of the most interesting figures in classical music today.

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Theater Review: “Not What Happened” — Exploring History’s Vanishing Presence

June 21, 2013
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What Ain Gordon’s play demonstrates is that even when records are indecipherable and incomplete, we still have the right, and perhaps the responsibility, to imagine what happened.

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Film Review: At the Toronto Film Fest — “Apples,” An Eerie, Airy Slice of New Greek Weird Wave

September 11, 2020
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What comes through most resonantly in Apples is its envisioning of a society starting over, and its suggestion that a clean slate, accepted honestly, might not be the worst thing.

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Theater Review: “The Merchant of Venus” — Shakespeare, Politically Corrected

June 22, 2013
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This production of Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice” tries to have it both ways: a show about intolerance, bigotry, and hatred is set in a ‘politically correct’ past.

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Book Review: “Fifty Poems” — An Offering on the Altar of Rainer Maria Rilke

October 7, 2025
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If, as a commemorative volume, “Fifty Poems” introduces readers to sample the German poet more extensively, either in the original or in the range of translations currently available, it will have accomplished a valuable task.

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Theater Review: Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express” — Neither Noir nor Romp

November 29, 2019
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Ken Ludwig’s stage version of Murder on the Orient Express is an enjoyable diversion.

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Book Review: Punk Rock and Poetry — The Record Corrected

September 3, 2017
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There was an entire “New York School” that the punks were inspired by and a part of, whether they always wanted to be or not.

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Visual Arts Review: “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out” — An Exhibition Whose Time Has Passed

December 22, 2024
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Museum exhibitions take a long time to put together, and the circumstances that justify them at their inception sometimes evaporate by the time they appear.

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Visual Arts: The Art of Thomas Hart Benton — Patriotic Correctness

June 22, 2015
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Benton’s art looks very much of its time, especially this selection of work that relates to cinema. Don’t let that fool you.

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At the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival — “My Imaginary Country” Looks at Chile, Where Protests Fill the Streets Again  

September 25, 2022
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Reviews of three new documentaries at TIFF: My Imaginary Country, To Kill a Tiger, and Miucha: The Voice of Bossa Nova.

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