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Album Review: “Man on the Moon III: The Chosen” — Kid Cudi Finds Himself, Again

January 9, 2021
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Occasional slip-ups shouldn’t obscure appreciation of Kid Cudi’s fantastic vocal performance.

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Book Review: “Cleanness” — Eroticism as a State of Being

May 22, 2020
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The embrace of existential uncertainty in Cleanness enhances the reading experience because it helps us to understand what’s vitally important to the narrator.

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Film Commentary: “Daughters of the Dust” Restored — Bold Black Filmmaking

January 8, 2017
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The restoration and re-issue of Julie Dash’s masterpiece is a valuable reminder that black female filmmakers are still woefully unsung.

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Theater Review: “My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend” — Simple and Profound

May 3, 2017
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My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend is a joyous delight, an irresistible reminder that time flies.

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Visual Arts Review: Rediscovered Feminist Rebel — Artist Miriam Laufer

September 29, 2016
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The political and feminist works of the ’60s and ’70s make the case for Miriam Laufer’s place in the annals of post-war American modernism.

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Theater Review: “At Home at the Zoo” — Edward Albee’s Perfect Pairing

August 19, 2017
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To see a production of this quality in a small theater was a privilege.

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Classical Music Commentary: Poetic Narratives in the Concert Hall, and a New Recording of Dvořák’s “The Spectre’s Bride”

January 20, 2019
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A reflection on the whole tradition of combining longish narrative poems to music, especially for performance in a concert hall by large forces (e.g., singers and orchestra).

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Theater Review: New York Round-Up — “Junk,” The Red Shoes,” “The Band’s Visit”

November 17, 2017
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The irony implied by Junk after the curtain goes down is the realization that white collar crime does pay.

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Book Review: The Leonard Bernstein Correspondence — A Tour of Twentieth Century Cultural History

October 31, 2013
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So is the book worth reading? Depends how interested you are in twentieth century cultural history, in music and creative genius, in marriage and sexuality.

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Book Interview: Translator Julie Rose on the Lyrical Power of Émile Zola’s “Doctor Pascal”

May 12, 2021
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Published in August of 2020, Oxford University Press’s English translation of Doctor Pascal marked the first time that Émile Zola’s 20-book Les Rougon-Macquart series was available in print under one publisher.

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