Music historian Harold Pollack’s comprehensive biographies on American composers including Aaron Copland, Elliot Carter, Marc Blitzstein. This year he has…
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Where is music going, and where, for that matter, is history going ? Was the ground taken by the “Panzer…
Q: For the readers–how do you define the term “Sacred Intimate”. The goal of sacred intimacy is to facilitate self-knowledge…
In “The Peach Seed,” its author Anita Gail Jones wonderfully and lovingly immerses readers in the world of Fletcher Dukes…
Over the last several years, I’ve read and reviewed more than a handful of AIDS-related memoirs — Peter Staley’s Never…
Aiden Levy’s “Saxophone Colossus” is an engrossing portrait of jazz musician Sonny Rollins. Rollins, now 92, stopped performing a decade…
“Nightgcrawling” by Leila Mottley is not only a truly stunning debut novel from a very young author, accomplished beyond her…
A Life of Picasso IV’ The Minotaur Years is art historian John Richardson’s fine line portrait of the revolutionary artist…
The world is full of everything from good dates to bad dates, from good paintings to bad paintings, or as…
In the early 80s, John Lurie went from being an out of work musician living basement in New York’s Alphabet…
Liz Brown’s “Twilight Man” is the dual biographies of Harrison Post, and a middle-aged philanthropist named Will Clark, Jr. who…
Graham Greene was one of the 20th century’s most successful novelists, from the droll theatrics of ‘Travels with My Aunt’…
On the surface, the protagonist of Alexandra Chang’s debut novel should be enthusiastic about her life and hopeful regarding her…
In 2019, two Korean siblings, Miriam and Grace Park who are both in their twenties, and like many others their…