Sviatoslav Richter: Musical Strict Constructionist

It is at once ridiculous and absolutely fitting that Richter was an originalist (i.e., a believer in the original intent of the composer) in his views on music: Following an absolutely frightful concert that I ...

Inquest on Left-Brained Literature

Excuse me while I get all Franco Moretti on you readers here. I work among engineers, and many of them are voracious readers who, nonetheless, have little connection to any prevailing literary trends. Rather, there ...

Finnegans Wake and Little, Big

Samuel Beckett: How It Is & Ping

2005 Music Wrap-up

Yasunari Kawabata: The Sound of the Mountain

Alain Resnais: Night and Fog