. In a career that spans the second half of the twentieth century, Barbara Cook has achieved a status accorded…
Books & CDs
Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop: A New Listener’s Guide to the Sounds and Lives of the Top Performers and…
The Cold War was such an utterly unique historical period that it’s likely the next hundred years will be filtered…
As most everyone knows by now, Fight Club centers around disaffected middle-class American males who meet in an underground secret…
Ten years in the writing, Mark Danielewski’s 700-page hypertext ghost story, House of Leaves, is a remarkable display of innovative…
Leni Riefenstahl has created some of the most controversial films and photographs in the history of those forms. Unfortunately, criticism…
Does life seem nasty, brutish and short? Tom Waits certainly appeared to feel that way on 1992’s Bone Machine, an…
The Woman Who Walked to Paradise (2000), Robert Stevens Fish There’s something refreshing about the author of a self-help book…
Brent Barrett has appeared on Broadway in Grand Hotel and Chicago, off-Broadway in March of the Falsettos and the original…
… Pedro E. Guerrero’s Calder at Home, a collection of intimate anecdotes and photographs of the sculptor Alexander "Sandy" Calder…
They must have made a terrific movie out of it. I haven’t seen the movie, unfortunately, but I did just…
. Ute Lemper’s is, sometimes, not an easy talent to love. Ever intense, she makes considerable demands on both herself…
.. Patti LuPone starred on Broadway as Evitaand as Reno Sweeney in the Lincoln Center revival of Anything Goes. Earlier…
Once Americans imagined that economic democracy meant a reasonable standard of living for all, that freedom was only meaningful once…