Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Walt Whitman
Arts Commentary: Consider the Self — I am George Floyd. I am Derek Chauvin.
I am Derek Chauvin, and I am George Floyd. Who are you?
Book Review: Long Live 19th-Century Literature!
Like Nina Antonia and Robert Clark, Mark Doty deftly interweaves personal narrative with his literary concerns.
Poetry Review: Richard J. Fein’s “Whitman/Vitman” — A Vigorous Homage
It’s hard to think of a contemporary poet who has engaged so passionately and devotedly, over many decades, with a single forebear.
Theater Review: “I and You”—Sounding a “Barbaric Yawp”
This gem of a play that is guaranteed to make you gasp at its surprising conclusion and leave the theater reveling in its lush language and the outstanding performances.
Book Review: Getting Closer To Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman is an exuberant poet, and fellow versifier C. K. Williams is exuberant about Whitman in this wonderfully perceptive introduction to his poetry. On Whitman (Writers on Writers) by C. K. Williams. Princeton University Press, 208 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Anthony Wallace On Whitman is a meditation on the life and work of the […]