Petrushka and Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky. Performed by the Győr National Ballet. Il mondo della luna by Franz Joseph Haydn. Performed by Gotham Chamber Orchestra. This review is about three recent adaptations of classical works: The Győr National Ballet’s take on Stravinsky’s...
Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business. Metropolitan Books, 2009 Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Harvard University Press, 2009 Many New Yorkers might wonder what use it is to...
Peter Swirski, Ed. I Sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature. McGill University Press, 2009 One December day in 1817, John Keats wrote to his brother the following: “I had not a dispute but a disquisition… on various subjects; several things...
Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy by Alex S. Jones. Oxford University Press (2009) “I don’t read the newspaper, I get my news online” is a phrase heard so often, it could be considered the battle cry of the digital-age. And as with any battle, this one is...
The End of Food by Paul Roberts. Houghton Mifflin (2008) Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture by Thom Hartmann. Viking Press (2009) As we move closer to the tipping point of climate change, where we’ll lose control of our ability to influence atmospheric conditions on Earth, it’s...
The Death of Why? The Decline of Questioning and the Future of Democracy by Andrea Batista Schlesinger. Berrett-Koehler (2009) Awakened just in time to watch the 2008 presidential debates, a modern-day Rip Van Winkle might have been forgiven for thinking he had seen some sort of...
