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Andrew Katzenstein is on the editorial staff of The New York Review. (May 2023)
Escaping from Notes to Sounds
Albert Ayler was not the first to exploit the saxophone’s capacity for nontraditional noises, but he was the first to create a coherent musical language from them alone.
Spirits Rejoice!: Albert Ayler and His Message
by Peter Niklas Wilson, translated from the German by Jane White
Holy Ghost: The Life and Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
by Richard Koloda
Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings
an album by Albert Ayler
May 11, 2023 issue
A Well-Ventilated Conscience
The digressive, playful, and irreverent Machado de Assis.
Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
by Machado de Assis, translated from the Portuguese and with an introduction and notes by Flora Thomson-DeVeaux
December 17, 2020 issue
Curiouser and Curiouser
Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, November 25, 2019–March 1, 2020
February 27, 2020 issue
Danse Macabre
Christopher King’s ‘Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe’s Oldest Surviving Folk Music’
Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe’s Oldest Surviving Folk Music
by Christopher C. King
Kitsos Harisiadis: Lament in a Deep Style, 1929–1931
an album produced by Christopher King with Vassilis Georganos
While You Live, Shine
a documentary film directed by Paul Duane
June 28, 2018 issue
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