Knife, by Salman Rushdie (Random House). In August, 2022, more than thirty years after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering the killing of Salman Rushdie, an assassin came running at him. The man stabbed Rushdie as he was addressing an audience in Chautauqua, New York, and kept on doing so for nearly half … Read more
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Alex BaraschCulture editor When I was a teen-ager, the discovery of Anthony Minghella’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley”—a 1999 adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name—left an indelible imprint on my brain. The charge between Jude Law’s Dickie Greenleaf, a wealthy layabout who’s decamped to Italy against his father’s wishes, and Matt Damon’s … Read more
Celebrating the soon-to-be-former Senate Leader’s force of personality. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of … Read more
Rachel SymeStaff writer If you haven’t been to Carnegie Hall lately, you might want to take a fresh look at its spring calendar. Something is going on over there. Of course, if you are in the market for traditional concerto performances and mezzo-soprano recitals, there is still no better place to find such things, but … Read more
Held, by Anne Michaels (Knopf). This episodic, philosophical novel orbits a group of loosely connected characters living between 1917 and 2025. It begins in France, during the First World War, with a British soldier lying on the ground after an explosion. We follow him home to North Yorkshire, where he works as a portrait photographer … Read more
Smoke and Ashes, by Amitav Ghosh (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). A hybrid of horticultural and economic history, this book proposes that the opium poppy should be taken as “a historical force in its own right.” Ghosh touches on opium’s origins as a recreational drug—it was favored in the courts of the Mongol, Ottoman, Safavid, and … Read more
Mark Morris Dance Group’s yearly run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (March 20-23) is one of the remnants of BAM’s once rich dance offerings. In “The Look of Love,” Morris, more often associated with Baroque music, responds to the familiar melodies of Burt Bacharach. (Even Kermit the Frog has sung “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on … Read more
“Bitter Crop,” “Our Moon,” “The Adversary,” and “Life on Earth.” Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the … Read more
Helen ShawStaff writer If you follow the eddy of the New York theatre season, you may already know that March and April will be a scrum on Broadway. Eighteen shows open in seven weeks, all scrambling to find their way along the slippery rocks before the Tony deadline of April 25. But, dazzled by that … Read more
