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Book Review: “My Brooklyn Writer Friend” — Flashes in the Gloom

January 20, 2016
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Thanks in large part to brevity alone, the way these stories work is closer to poetry than to fiction.

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Music Interview: Session Americana and That Little Round Table

February 17, 2017
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Session Americana has matured from a local, informal collective to a polished touring band.

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Film Review: “Dead of Winter” — Horror and the Art of Living Deliciously

January 24, 2017
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One of the lessons of the Dead of Winter series at the Brattle Theatre:”The occult is one of many tickets to the revolution.”

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Theater Review: The CSC’s “King Lear” — The Deed Dutifully Done

August 2, 2015
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For all of its sound and fury and smoke, the CSC’s version of King Lear is solid rather than surprising or exciting.

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Film Review: “My Life as a Zucchini”—A French Fable of Loss and Belonging

March 14, 2017
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Children’s connections to one another are layered and complex, and their understanding of the adult world more sophisticated than we usually allow.

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Book Review: “Nicotine” — A Fresh Take on Addiction

February 27, 2017
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A beautiful, if somewhat meandering, series of vignettes on the writer’s lifelong relationship with cigarettes.

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Visual Arts Review: Cyberarts Presents the Beauty of BioArt

April 15, 2016
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Membrane: Biology and Art is a wonderfully conceived and curated show.

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Opera Commentary: The Mess at the Met — … curtain!

August 22, 2014
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On the surface, this is a deal that lets both sides go forward having saved face, though a closer look at things suggests that the musicians came out ahead.

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Rock Album Reviews: Two Recent Examples of High Grade Black Metal

March 12, 2014
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The two best black metal LPs of the past few months come from the Netherlands’ An Autumn for Crippled Children and Poland’s Behemoth.

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Book Review: Richard Powers’s Urgent “Orfeo” — Can Art Save Us?

January 27, 2014
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As with any Richard Powers novel, when you finish “Orfeo” you will have no doubt you are alive, awake, and likely ready to start over at page one.

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