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Lehman & Moloney/ The Irish and the Jews (Terence Winch)
Over the holidays this year, my two favorite aesthetic encounters were somewhat complementary: David Lehman's new book on Jewish composers and Mick Moloney's new CD on Irish-Jewish musical collaborations. Both projects are brilliant in…
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Where the Wild Things Are Part III (by Anne Caston)
(photo courtesy of Loretto Jones) Two Stories In what will be the final hour of daylight here today, I will take the slippery curves of Yankovich Road and drive out…
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IX. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru (To Live) [1952] (by Lewis Saul)
Ed note: For the next several weeks, composer and film aficionado Lewis Saul has agreed to supply us with in-depth commentary about the films of Akira Kurosawa, now showing in an extended festival at…
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Inefficiency and Poetry — by Brad Leithauser
Spontaneity has its time and place–but maybe not now and maybe not here. For poets, anyway, it's usually an overrated virtue.I suppose this is one reason I've always so envied jazz musicians–their world where…
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Brad Leithauser, Guest Blogger January 17 – 23
This week we welcome Brad Leithauser as our guest blogger. Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five previous novels, most recently…
