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Book Review: On Our Love Affair With Catastrophe — So Long as it is Happening to Someone Else

David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David D'Arcy, David Thomson, Disaster Mon Amour, Yale-University-Press

December Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Anna Netrebko, Antonio Pappano, Bill-Marx, Blake Maddux, Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, From Rags to Riches: 100 Years of American Song, I Dream of Christmas, Jonathan Blumhofer, Michael Rawson, Norah Jones, NYFOS Records, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Slumberland Records, Steven Blier, The Nature of Tomorrow, The New York Festival of Song, The Umbrellas, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “The Notes” of Ludwig Hohl — “Everything Ever Created Was a Fragment.”

Ludwig Hohl belongs in the line of such lucidly contentious thinkers as Karl Kraus, Pascal, and Lichtenberg, commentators whose writing oscillates between the traditions of literature and philosophy.

By: Alexandra Sattler Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Ludwig Hohl, Tess Lewis, The Notes, translation, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: Man Ray — He Could Have Been a Contender

The biography raises the subject of Man Ray’s Jewish roots, but the matter is dropped pretty quickly.

By: Timothy Francis Barry Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Arthur Lubow, Jewish Lives Series, Man Ray, Timothy Francis Barry, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: The Woman Behind “All-of-a-Kind Family” — A Remarkable Legacy

Biographer June Cummins considers the first All-of-a-Kind Family book, published in 1951, as groundbreaking and Sydney Taylor as “one of the first writers of multicultural literature for children.”

By: Cyrisse Jaffee Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: All-of-a-Kind Family, From Sarah to Sydney, June Cummins, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “Art and Faith” — Creating Revelatory Beauty

Art and Faith should be widely read — its delightful wisdom and clarity underlines our culture’s desperate need to make things new.

By: Susanne Sklar Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Art and Faith, Makoto Fujimura, Susanne Sklar, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “Irving Berlin: New York Genius” — A Significant Life

Biographer James Kaplan was aided by the assistance of Irving Berlin’s two elder daughters, and that makes this biography particularly valuable.

By: Benjamin Sears Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Benjamin Sears, Irving Berlin, Jewish Lives, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: A Concise, Conscientious Guide to the Life and Work of Alfred Stieglitz

The book will stand as a good first stop for anyone interested in Alfred Stieglitz, 20th-century photography, or American modern art.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Alfred Stieglitz, Jewish Lives, Phyllis Rose, Yale-University-Press

Book Reviews: A Provocative Trio of Volumes on Architecture and Landscape Architecture

In very different ways and on very different topics, three recent books assuage notions that architecture/design books are formidable reads.

By: Mark Favermann Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Cocktails and Conversations, Dialogues on Architectural Design, Mark Favermann, Mark Lamster, Philip Johnson, Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin, Sonja Dümpelmann, The Man in the Glass House, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “Physics & Dance” — The Intelligence of Movement

The authors let dance serve as a way of embodied knowing — an intelligence that can unlock an understanding of physics’ theories and abstractions.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Emily Coates, Physics & Dance, Sarah Demers, Yale-University-Press

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