-
-
ARTS
By Alexander E. Traub
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The gutsy decision of Patriots Coach Bill Belichick to let the Giants score a touchdown at the end of the Super Bowl should be analyzed in artistic terms.
-
ARTS
By Alexander E. Traub
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
How many meaningful conversations have you had at Occupy rallies?
-
ARTS
By Alexander E. Traub
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Through a series of prose-poetic portraits and landscapes of Dukla, a small town in Poland, Stasiuk demonstrates how the everyday can be interwoven with the eternal.
-
NEWS
By Alexander E. Traub and Zoe A. Y. Weinberg
Saturday, September 10, 2011
For a generation that had known nothing but 1990s peace and prosperity, 9/11 has come to represent, in one way at least, a loss of innocence. The very real emotion that led to the proliferation of American flags has by and large faded. All such feelings do.
-
ARTS
By Alexander E. Traub
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
In the hammy form of a musical and under the cheery title “Parade” lies the dark true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish man convicted in a show trial of raping and murdering 13-year-old Mary Phagan in 1913 Georgia.
-
ARTS
By Alexander E. Traub
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Creative maps at Harvard shed light on the intrinsic subjectivity and artistry of the cartographer.
-
ARTS
By Alexander E. Traub
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
“The Witmark Demos” may be the best distillation yet of this musical eloquence, as its 47 tracks show the troubadour’s gifts for expressing folk’s major emotional, narrative, and characterological themes.
-
ARTS
By Alexander E. Traub
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Childhood may always be a time for epic battles of heroism; for fights between cops and robbers, between superheroes and supervillains, between best friends and playground bullies.
-
ARTS
By Alexander E. Traub
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
The most compelling aspects of “The Elephant’s Journey” do not come from the cultural analysis for which Saramago is famous, but rather from a self-referential exploration of the form of the novel.
-
ARTS
By Alexander E. Traub
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
But if “All Days Are Nights” is an unalterable step towards a kind of maturity, it is also a regrettable one.
-