Carnegie plus one
After 130 years, Carnegie Hall decided it could use a virtual stage
Books and Arts
Sunday
Going Greco-Roman in Boston
What Would Seneca Do?
Swing for me
The experience of seeing George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s Company is something like inadvertently joining a swingers’ party
Naples and nurture
The Hand of God reviewed
Witches brew
The Tragedy of Macbeth reviewed
Crazed and confused
The dark, strange, twisted and irrational moments of American history aren’t just fringe tales
Monday
Getting the jokes in Proust
A dismaying number of Proust readers don’t realize it’s supposed to be funny
Reality bit
True Story: What Reality TV Says about Us by Danielle Lindemann reviewed
Reading gaol
Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison by Daniel Genis reviewed
Picking a fight
Why Argument Matters by Lee Siegel reviewed
Sex and the city
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors reviewed
Poor little rich girls
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson reviewed
Hogarth framed
Great artists like Hogarth are getting the trigger-warning treatment
John Wayne behind the blue line
The Seventies weren’t John Wayne’s decade, and that was fine by him
Serve and volley
King Richard reviewed
Nanny bait
Mrs. Doubtfire reviewed
Returning to live gigs
When Covid rampaged through the world like a Viking raid of death-cult realtors, the world was suddenly shorn of live music
Get with the program
Both in Pittsburgh and Miami, I was struck by the rousing enthusiasm that the symphony and soloists evoked with their temerarious playing
Digging it
Tunnel 29 reviewed
Monday
Who killed Bambi?
The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest by Felix Salten reviewed
