… to its stage worthiness. Its recordings have tended to compensate for these limitations, and in Riccardo Chailly’s … the Soviet conductor who defected to the West in 1978, died earlier this year in his adopted Amsterdam, where he … of three Debussy works in a new collection (DG 2531 264). La Mer is the least successful—too detached, too …
Poetry
… or other monsters of wind touching down and scooping up animals and precious clay and barns, anything that wasn’t nailed … to last, even if the buildings couldn’t be budged with a locomotive. Pewter and gray; polished potbelly; base of an old … mile of mesquite. All of it continues and persists and then dies. This in a color-starved part of the world. Maybe …
… in part as the result of the impact of the European Common Market. Ever since the announcement of the Truman … in 1947, when American moral and material support was committed to the maintenance of Greek and Turkish … arteries of vital communication and oil resources but also would discourage Russia from attempting to establish …
Essays
… Income Disparity Within a Marriage The following post is part … to the limits of digital publishing, but one of the points made in a post over at Gawker really leapt out at me: … And while living this life makes me feel gratitude, I will also always feel extreme, crushing guilt. Last year, I was …
… and fundamental racism. Today, however, as Hobson points out in his VQR essay, Southern benightedness is … “largely as a historical phenomenon.” The Bible Belt has become the Sun Belt, the Savage South the Superior South. In … Gross is an associate professor of history and American studies at Amherst College. He has also taught at the …
… even more inadequate. Readers familiar with Charles Burns’s comics already will be well aware of the excruciatingly … poetic juxta-position of images and other sundry talking points) and while I might be able to do a college passing-C … “low class,” his sketchbooks filled with respectful studies of forgotten B-list comic book artists and pencil …