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Book Review: Haruki Murakami — Marathon Storyteller

November 27, 2011
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In his dozen or so works of international best-selling fiction, Haruki Murakami has created an alternate-reality Japan that is at once magical and familiar, dangerous and comfortable, foreign but Westernized.

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Visual Arts Feature: A Walk in the City — Seeing Architectural Details and History in a Time of Covid-19

April 25, 2020
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Ironically, sheltering at home reminds us that walking through some neighborhoods in Boston is an aesthetically enriching experience.

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Book Interview: Heather Cox Richardson on “How the South Won the Civil War”

May 25, 2020
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“Politics is driven by language, and America’s peculiar history has given oligarchs the language to undercut democracy.”

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Book Feature: Worthwhile Reads in 2016

December 30, 2016
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Some books published in 2016 I’m glad to have read.

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Concert Preview: Grand Harmonie’s “March Madness”

March 23, 2017
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“We thought, why don’t we hark back to earlier occasions which were equal parts socializing and entertainment?”

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Book Review: The Joy and Glory of Virgil Thomson’s “The State of Music & Other Writings”

October 12, 2016
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The Library of America volumes of Virgil Thomson’s writings will help reestablish him as one of the 20th century’s preeminent musical scribes.

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Jazz CD Reviews: Freedom Now — Tetraptych’s “Tetraptych” and The Alchemists’ “Journey to the East”

August 30, 2017
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If you want to know how exquisitely intuition and structure can be balanced, you could hardly do better than to hear these two new discs.

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Jazz Commentary: Jazz and the Single Trumpet Player

March 25, 2019
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Far more people would recognize Chet Baker’s name than Jack Sheldon’s — and that is unfortunate.

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Book Review: Filmmaker Werner Herzog — On the Hunt for the Ecstatic Truth

September 4, 2020
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This thoughtful study offers a worthwhile critical perspective on Werner Herzog, one of the world’s great living film artists.

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Jazz Commentary: Survival of a Scene in Boston

April 21, 2018
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Local music venues — especially those with “off” music like jazz — are caught in a vice, with real estate escalation on one side and corporate-dominated digital technology on the other.

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