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A rereading of "City of Quartz" by the recently departed Mike Davis is necessary to appreciate how brilliant it is, with insights dripping from every page, delivered in writing that is beautiful in its smoldering anger. Who else could convey, by invoking the metaphor...

Cate Blanchett is at the top of her game in this drama where orchestral politics and sexual intrigue come together to bring a brilliant conductor down from the heights of Mahler’s Symphony No 5 to incognito status providing sci-fi music for a cosplay enacted in Manila...

The Oscar-nominated "Banshees of Inisherin" is a beautifully acted unconventional tale of pre-Facebook "unfriending" that is not without its share of, well, grisly scenes. Casting is really everything, and one is simply taken by the magical weaving together of the...

Stalin by Ronald Grigor Suny is not a hatchet-job on Stalin like many other works by liberal scholars. Based on documents in Soviet archives made available after the Soviet collapse, this is a surprisingly even-handed account of the Soviet leader's pre-Russian...