It’s time, after 115 years, to retire the Nobel Prize. This year’s award in literature proves it. Yes, the Swedish Academy gives out Nobels in a bunch of fields, including the hard sciences and the [ Read Article ]
Clint Eastwood is nothing if not unpredictable. His latest film, J. Edgar, is an old-fashioned Hollywood biopic shot at a leisured pace—two hours and seventeen minutes—with polished production values and meticulous attention to period detail. [ Read Article ]
Woody Allen, that hardy perennial, returns as predictably as Santa Claus, although, like Santa, he’s getting a bit up in years now. Like Santa, too, he sometimes has a present in his bag, but often [ Read Article ]
How can you be an expatriate from your adopted country? Polish-born Roman Polanksi, once married to Charles Manson victim Sharon Tate, has had a, shall we say, complex relationship to the United States, from which [ Read Article ]
Greece has just scraped together the money to make its latest, $757 million (848 million euro) payment to its European (read: German) debtmasters. It did so, without cash enough in the national coffers, by forcibly [ Read Article ]
As I write, just past the unmet deadline for the Greek payment of a scheduled 1.55 billion-euro debt service, it is impossible to say what the next week or month will bring. The past week, [ Read Article ]
Dimitris Lyacos’ long, tripartite poem, Poena Damni, is one of the most important and challenging literary works to come from Greece in the past generation, and it has achieved an international reputation. With the People [ Read Article ]
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society brought its season to a close with the Aizuri Quartet making its debut in the series with a pair of Russian piano quintets, one well-known and one obscure. The Philadelphia [ Read Article ]
Why, asks the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Peter Dobrin, should anyone do La Traviata after Maria Callas? The simple answer is that great dramatic and vocal art demands to be done again and again in each generation, [ Read Article ]
For some time, Woody Allen has been churning out a film a year. This year’s Irrational Man is his forty-seventh. For a long time, he has been mining the work of his betters, Bergman and [ Read Article ]
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