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The Shroud of Turin. An Ohio ghost story. “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” Basketball with Xenophon and Achilles. Things that should or shouldn’t be done with a Philadelphia Eagles hat. Just five of the things that aliens landing at City Winery last Monday might have taken away from their close encounter with humanity. The House of […]
Read MoreTotentanz for Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone, and Orchestra (2013) by Thomas Adès New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, conducted by Thomas Adès A medieval frieze destroyed during the Second World War is the source material for Thomas Adès‘s new work, Totentanz, which received its U.S. premiere last week. Conducting the New York Philharmonic was the composer himself. […]
Read MoreReadEasy is a new feature for 2015… because you’re worth it. I love Daily Savings Time. No matter what the weather, it makes me feel like spring is here!!! — Danielle Steel (@daniellesteel) March 10, 2015 Naomi Klein on climate change… In an edited excerpt from her new book This Changes Everything (Simon & Schuster, 2014) […]
Read MoreIf you still don’t have tickets to see our latest Seriously Entertaining show, No Return, you’re reaching the point thereof, as it’s tonight! Join us at City Winery in New York City for an evening taking in music, poetry, comedy, horror, and a little papal politics as we lay on a mega-selling, award-winning, genius-laden line-up for your intellectual […]
Read MoreThe Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell Simon & Schuster, 2015; 448pp “The search for information about the Vatican is maddening,” writes Ian Caldwell, “not because that information is scarce but because it’s oceanic, bottomless, centuries deep — and because, just when you think you’re on the cusp of a discovery, you drop head-first into the […]
Read MoreMeredith Scardino is a four-time Emmy Award-winning comedy writer for The Colbert Report, where she wrote a hundred jokes a day. Having started her career in the world of animation, she quickly migrated to comedy writing, and has also worked on The Late Show with David Letterman, Best Week Ever and SNL. Most recently she became the executive […]
Read MoreReadEasy is a new feature for 2015 — because life’s hard enough already, amIright? https://twitter.com/jenniferweiner/status/570321074988175360 Last Wednesday Tom McCarthy joined Dennis Lim, director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, to discuss his new novel, Satin Island (Knopf, 2015), and to screen two avant-garde classics he considers to be in conversation with it: Antony Balch’s 1963 Towers […]
Read MoreOlives by A.E. Stallings TriQuarterly Books, 2012; 80pp The poems in Olives are smart yet accessible; beautiful but deadly; both tragic and humorous. In her third collection, following Archaic Smile (1999) and Hapax (2006), poet A.E. Stallings playfully blends ancient and modern, Persephone and Barney (yes the cute purple dinosaur), with strangely profound results. The collection’s four parts bear the […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, ReadEasy does the hard work so you don’t have to. https://twitter.com/Joannechocolat/status/569571870774837248 Also, totally read our reviews of Oscar-winning movies Boyhood, Whiplash, and Ida. Wanna see tomorrow’s prize-winners today? Buy tickets for No Return, our next Seriously Entertaining show at City Winery NYC, on March 9. Guests include horror maestro R.L. Stine (who we interviewed here), author and […]
Read MoreThe B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song by Ben Yagoda Riverhead Books, 2015; 320pp “Loesser drew a picture of a train with a caboose and said, ‘This is what makes a good song. The locomotive has to start it. The caboose has to finish it off. […]
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