The Needle and the Lens by Nate Patrin
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An abbreviated but enjoyable romp through film and music.
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Schubert: A Musical Wayfarer by Lorraine Byrne Bodley
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A lively, knowledgeable biography of the great composer.
Read MoreArt Review: After Impressionism
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A review of the summer’s exhibit at London’s National Gallery.
Read MoreShy by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
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Mary Rodgers’ posthumously published memoir appears in all its dishy, opinionated glory
Read MoreI Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein
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The inimitable playwright and actor writes a candid, affecting memoir.
Read MoreDrawn to Nature by Simon Martin
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A celebration of the artwork that’s attended Gilbert White’s odd masterpiece for centuries.
Read MorePutting It Together by James Lapine
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From postcard to Pulitzer, the saga of a classic American musical.
Read MoreHirschfeld: The Biography by Ellen Stern
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Line by line, a unique artist joyfully chronicles the popular arts of the 20th century.
Read MoreIbsen's Kingdom by Evert Sprinchorn
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A new biography of the great playwright turns the spotlight on his works.
Read MoreSingular Sensation by Michael Riedel
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A veteran reporter recalls the vibrant, colorful New York theater of the ‘90s.
Read MoreHeart Full of Rhythm by Ricky Riccardi
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A new book details a key transition in the career of the great Louis Armstrong.
Read MoreThe Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
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While looking for the rooms of their own that Virginia Woolf argued all women writers needed, a group of female artists and scholars in early-1960s created their own Bloomsbury and prefigured the beginnings of second-wave feminism.
Read MoreNo More Giants
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An unimpeachable and provocative collection drawn from almost every one of Sondheim’s projects.
Read MoreCalder: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years by Jed Perl
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The second volume in Jed Perl’s indispensable biography of Alexander Calder.
Read MoreFrom 2017: Calder: The Conquest of Time - the Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl
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The first volume of Jed Perl’s landmark biography of Alexander Calder.
Read MoreThe Lives of Lucian Freud by William Feaver
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Nobody alive today is in a better position to write an enormous, definitive biography of this artist.
Read MoreFor the Love of Music by John Mauceri
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Mauceri takes on the ambitious task of teaching the reader to listen to music.
Read MoreThe Photo Ark: Vanishing by Joel Sartore
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Here are the animals on their way off the planet.
Read MoreOld Town Road Single by Lil Nas X
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A song with a country twang and a trap beat that’s been raising blood pressure since March 2019.
Read MoreGropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus by Fiona McCarthy
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McCarthy is a wonderfully sympathetic biographer, and her reading and research in these pages is vast.
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