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Geoffrey O’Brien’s most recent book is Arabian Nights of 1934. (June 2023)
Joe Brainard’s Communal Intimacy
While Brainard’s recurring subject was himself, he somehow kept himself at a distance, an object in a world of other bodies.
Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal
by John Yau
April 20, 2023 issue
Keep Your Eye on the Kid
Buster Keaton made his own kind of sense out of the perplexities of existence in ways baffling to those among whom he found himself.
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life
by James Curtis
Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
by Dana Stevens
October 20, 2022 issue
Schemes Gone Awry
Richard Wilbur’s translations of Molière, now in the Library of America, have a fluency that goes beyond meter and rhyme to encompass textures of speech and movements of thought.
Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations
May 26, 2022 issue
Verdi’s Decentered Epic
The six principal characters of Don Carlos grasp at separate ends, but nothing is finally to be attained.
Don Carlos
an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, February 28–March 26, 2022
April 21, 2022 issue
Notes from Underground
Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s new opera recasts the Orphic myth with Eurydice as the central character.
Eurydice
an opera by Matthew Aucoin, with a libretto by Sarah Ruhl, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, November 23–December 16, 2021
The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera
by Matthew Aucoin
January 13, 2022 issue
‘Magic Sayings by the Thousands’
At the heart of the Kalevala is the shamanistic power of words to transform, lead astray, destroy, create, or bring back to life.
Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People
translated from the Finnish by Eino Friberg and with an introduction by Jukka Korpela
The Kalevala: An Epic Poem After Oral Tradition
by Elias Lönnrot, translated from the Finnish with an introduction and notes by Keith Bosley, and with a foreword by Albert B. Lord
The Kalevala, or Poems of the Kaleva District
compiled by Elias Lönnrot and translated from the Finnish with a foreword and appendices by Francis Peabody Magoun Jr.
November 4, 2021 issue
Hitler in Antarctica
A historian of the Third Reich traces the processes by which history is not simply distorted but replaced by a fantastic parallel version.
The Hitler Conspiracies
by Richard J. Evans
January 14, 2021 issue
Becoming the Nightmare
Wozzeck
an opera by Alban Berg, in a production by William Kentridge, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, December 27, 2019–January 22, 2020
February 27, 2020 issue
Back on Catfish Row
‘Porgy and Bess’ at the Met
Porgy and Bess
an opera by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City, September 23, 2019–February 1, 2020
Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music
by Richard Crawford
November 21, 2019 issue
There’s No Place Like Home
Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space
by Harry Martinson, adapted from the Swedish by Hugh MacDiarmid and Elspeth Harley Schubert
Aniara
an opera by Karl-Birger Blomdahl
Aniara
a film directed by Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja
August 15, 2019 issue
A Boundless Capacity for Talk
Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
by Adina Hoffman
April 18, 2019 issue
Out of Renoir’s Shadow
Jacques Becker
a series of films at Film Forum, New York City, August 1–16, 2018
October 25, 2018 issue
Miracle in Bologna
Il Cinema Ritrovato
a film festival in Bologna, Italy, June 23–July 1, 2018
August 16, 2018 issue
Freudian Noir
David Bordwell’s ‘Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling’
Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
by David Bordwell
May 24, 2018 issue
Polymorphous Eden
‘Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables’ at the Whitney Museum
Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables
an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, March 2–June 10, 2018
May 10, 2018 issue
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