Andrew Katzenstein

Provocation from Another Soul

“Stanley Cavell was a dazzling teacher. You felt that he was opening his private studio to you, showing you how philosophy gets done rather than simply reporting his findings after the fact.”

The Prophetic Character of Russian Literature

“Pasternak remarked that ‘a book is a squarish chunk of hot, smoking conscience—and nothing else!’ Russian writers asked ultimate questions under extreme conditions.”

A Well-Ventilated Conscience

The digressive, playful, and irreverent Machado de Assis.

Curiouser and Curiouser

Danse Macabre

Christopher King’s ‘Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe’s Oldest Surviving Folk Music’

Alice Coltrane's Bliss

An important jazz musician in her own right, Alice Coltrane recorded a dozen albums under her own name, including Hindu chants performed in gospel arrangements.

Bernhard on Bernhard

In Thomas Bernhard: Three Days, a documentary filmed in Hamburg in 1970, the Austrian novelist and playwright says, “As far as I am concerned, I am no writer, I am somebody who writes.”

Prince of the Player Piano

The Whitney Museum is now hosting an eleven-day festival celebrating the work of American expatriate composer Conlon Nancarrow, who is best known for his innovative studies for player piano.