New book celebrates the centennial of jazz great Billy Strayhorn
"Strayhorn: An Illustrated Life" is a welcome addition for anyone interested in jazz, civil rights, or photography.
New book offers no optimism for a free Puerto Rico
Nelson A. Denis looks not at earlier colonial history, but rather measures taken to subdue Nationalists before and after their 1950 uprising.
“Moby-Dick”: Melville’s masterpiece gets an operatic treatment
Although it has some fishy alterations, this is a mind-blowing production.
