Jared Diamond, David Laskin, Susan Gilman, and Douglas Coupland.
Ah, painting. For many people, visual art means oil paints applied to canvas. Forget for a moment all the babble…
SPEAKING TO POWER Harper’s magazine’s tart-tongued editor, Lewis Lapham, ought to have plenty to say about Bush, Cheney, and the…
And local composers steal it.
A New York chef serves up a restaurant memoir with all the trimmings.
A new start in Seattle, and a tragic end in New York.
FRIDAY – WEDNESDAY FILM GODZILLA No Raymond Burr. That’s the first thing you notice about this restored 50th-anniversary version of…
Philip Roth explains that though he dislikes our current national politics, the alternatives were once much worse.
Books sent from publishers that would do better poolside rather than accumulating in an increasingly dangerous tower at my desk:…
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Black Top Brawl, and Silent Movie Mondays earn our money.
TANGO RETRO At its heart, tango is about the public display of private relationships, a dichotomy which performers Patricio Touceda…
Dina Martina Grady West’s daft diva wraps up her series of Sunday brunch performances this weekend, which means it’s your…
For immediate release. ANNA DEAVERE SMITH’S “HOUSE ARREST” POSTPONED AT TAPER Anna Deavere Smith’s new play “House Arrest,” which was…
Susanna Clarke, T.C. Boyle, and David Mitchell.
Ten years later, the Seattle Fringe Festival promises to defy expectations.
PNB’s new stamp on a classic.
What to see when you’re done with Dickens.
FIXER CHAO by Han Ong (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, $24) WILLIAM PAULINHA hasn’t had a pleasant American dream. The antihero…
THURS FILM The movie can be good (Me and You and Everyone We Know), so-so (Valentin), or dreadful (The Notebook),…
Mozart’s Così gets the overly comic treatment.
