This album lacks the desperation, the immediacy, the sheer power that made Sleater-Kinney essential in its original decade. The post Rock CD Review: Sleater-Kinney's "The Center Won't Hold" …
This fine novel is portrait of Baltimore as a city at war with itself. The post Book Review: "Lady in the Lake" " The Complex Tapestry of Urban Decay appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
Helen Gillet's music welcomes loops of all sorts and plays with the happy accidents that create new melodies and rhythms that reach beyond borders. The post Music Preview: Cellist Helen Gill…
As readers know, a thread of melancholy runs through Tolkien's masterwork, deepening and informing his achievement. It should, by rights, have its place in any depiction of his life. The pos…
This is the most extensive public display of original J.R.R. Tolkien material for several generations. The post Visual Arts Review: "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth" " Treasures of an Imagina…
In every meaningful way, The The's return to the States, the band's first tour in 16 years, was generous.
IÂ think of Bill when I hear from struggling young writers, desperate to get it "right" " and to be accepted and published and make a living in a ridiculously difficult field.
This is a winning book, conveying a strangely believable fantasy about three strong young women in a world not that far removed from our own.
"They travel the world and have for years," says Ellen Seeling, "sending the message that there are no women good enough to be in this organization."
By taking the stage with 15 musicians, none of whom is female, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra presents the music as segregated and outdated.
While The Bone Clocks is compulsively readable, there are too many parts of this book that can only be called lazy.
We all have ghosts, the author seems to say. And in a larger sense, Sarah Waters's ghosts are those of country and culture, her books a catalogue of the social changes shaking England from t…
Sometimes using the Twitter handle #itsokKimNovak, at other times just linking to Laura Lipmann's Facebook page, women " primarily writers and our friends " have started posting our own "raw…
VIDA, an association of women in the literary arts, has released its fifth annual tally of the number of women critics in major literary publications as well as the number of works by women …