Arts Features

  • wed/3/13 Books More Money, More Problems Let’s start with the title. Mohsin Hamid isn’t serious about How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (Riverhead, … More »

  • A play that challenges you to meet it on its own terms can be a thing of beauty or a vexation akin to root-canal work. … More »

  • Operas for one singer are not unheard of (Seattle Opera’s staging one, Poulenc’s La voix humaine, in May), but the triple achievement of Hope Wechkin’s … More »

  • A charming, unfulfilled wife, her fastidious, inattentive husband, and her obsessive, capricious lover. You know the story, set in decaying tsarist Russia. Tolstoy's tragic tale … More »