Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa died at age 89 in 2025. His massive literary output during his career included novels,…
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Nina Wise’s By This Light is produced with a delicate touch. It floats like refined incense, filling space with a clean, crisp,…
Wil Haygood’s ‘War Within a War’ covers the many injustices that confronted Black soldiers fighting to keep Vietnamese people free…
In 2024 composer-pianist Michael Stephen Brown was in residency at Yaddo, the artist retreat in Saratoga NY. He was among…
The origins of queer hate is investigated in Harry Tanner’s history ‘The Queer Thing About Sin’ in a detailed analysis…
The rise and demise of the Weimar Republic is the subject of two startlingly timely books- Harald Jahner’s aptly titled …
Susan Cheever’s ‘When All the Men Wore Hats’ is a moving portrait of her famous father and sequel (sort of)…
Staying in the present is an adage and advice easily and often given, but hard for most to execute. It…
It is no surprise that Stephen Greenblatt’s biography of Christopher Marlowe is a shadowy portrait of a genius rogue playwright….
Tired of the tidal wave of bad news? exasperated at the threats to free speech? horrified at the attacks on…
Arts Journalist and novelist Miriam Seidel conceived her opera ‘Violet Fire’ in 2006 to commemorate the 150th birthyear of Croatian…
Nicholas Boggs’ ‘James Baldwin: A Love Story’ is a masterful biography of the life and times of one of the…
Brokeback Manhattan Henry Wiencek’s dual biography of architect Stanford White and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens is intimately titled ‘Stan and Gus,‘…
Israeli comic, Yohay Sponder, says, “C’mon guys [by ‘guys’ he means Hamas]. The Germans, they’re the Germans, if they couldn’t…