Crazed and confused
The dark, strange, twisted and irrational moments of American history aren’t just fringe tales
Books & Arts
Witches brew
The Tragedy of Macbeth reviewed
Naples and nurture
The Hand of God reviewed
Swing for me
The experience of seeing George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s Company is something like inadvertently joining a swingers’ party
Going Greco-Roman in Boston
What Would Seneca Do?
Carnegie plus one
After 130 years, Carnegie Hall decided it could use a virtual stage
Precarious and thrilling
Milton Avery was able to carve out his own path, distinct from modernism’s march through history
Sibelius speaks
A new recording of a rare piece by Jean Sibelius is out
I’m a Latinx person of letters
The POC victim narrative is a systemic problem
For whom the bell tolls
Hemingway’s Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian reviewed
Our enemy’s enemy
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach reviewed
Fall and decline
After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport reviewed
A gay fandango
Joie de Vivre by Paul Bailey reviewed
