The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
After you have read The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross you will never hear concert …
Monthly Archives: November 2015
My Mañana Comes: Back of the House on Stage
On the enthusiastic recommendation of a friend, four of us collected ourselves to see the Marin Theater Company’s presentation of …
Terror: The Terrible Numbers
The attacks in Paris are most recently on our minds, and for many of us, more heavily there than attacks …
Taxi — A Forbidden Film from Iran
Jaffar Panahi’s Taxi, an entry at the recent Mill Valley Film Festival has made it into at least limited distribution in …
1914: Slender Novel, Big War
Although Jean Echenoz is both widely read and a winner of multiple literary prizes in France you’d have to …
A Test of Wills — Solving Small Crimes not the Big Ones
A Test of Wills, (1996) by Charles Todd is the first of what has become a series of some seventeen novels featuring Inspector …
The Great Swindle: Opportunities in France, 1919
Pierre Lemaitre has won a substantial following both in his native France and abroad for writing crime fiction. His Commandant Camille …