Exotic and irrational entertainment

Frantz (2016), directed by François Ozon, screenplay by Ozon and Philippe Piazzo. Based on the film Broken Lullaby (1932), directed by...

In its January 2018 issue Opera News has picked Philippe Jaroussky's Bach-Telemann: Sacred Cantatas with the Freiburger Barockorchest...

Kindra Scharich and the Alexander String Quartet: produced by Lieder Alive! at the Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, September 10. ...

B. G. MacCarthy: The Female Pen: Women Writers and Novelists 1621-1818 (NYU Press, 1994) This book and the one that follows helped shap...

It's that time again, when I offer a brief survey of my favorite books, music, movies and television first experienced during the past y...