Matthew Shipp has risen over the past eight years to become the preeminent pianist in the New York "free" or…
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The Nazi slogan “Women must be emancipated from women’s emancipation” appears early in this book, and one can easily see…
In 1976, twenty-six-year-old Graham Parker and his band, the Rumour, emerged from the British pub-rock scene and released two extraordinary…
It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way compiled by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer…
Philip Roth’s I Married A Communist is one a series of novels that use a narrator, Nathan Zuckerman, as a…
… Review of San Francisco appearance with Joan Ryan Lee Lessack has been one of the US’ most successful cabaret…
John Bucchino has been the saviour of many a cabaret singer. His lush melodies and clever, psychologically astute lyrics remain…
The 1954 motion picture Salt of the Earth, based on the true story of a New Mexico zinc miners’ strike,…
Michael Chabon’s luminous 1988 coming-of-age novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, was one of the auspicious literary debuts of the last…
By T. Coraghessan Boyle This book was written after its writer, Thomas John Boyle, became T. Coraghessan Boyle, but before…
Death on the Cheap: The Lost B Movies of Film Noir analyzes how film noir became a genre and, unlike…
Bliss Broyard’s collection of short stories, My Father, Dancing, is so splendidly nuanced that one is tempted to overstate the…
David S. Ware is one of the most powerful saxophonists currently working. His technique goes far beyond the sometimes-contrived overblowing…
Wonderful Town was the second of Leonard Bernstein’s trio of ‘New York’ musicals begun in 1944 with On The Town…