Culture

My Discovery of Howl!

Ginsberg at 100

Pentecostal Epic and Opera

Up and Out on Ascension

Haydn’s “Sun” Quartets Light up Berlin

Fred Anderson, North American Writer

Bach and Bitcoin

On Chuck Klosterman’s “Football”

Sound History

The Invisible Forest

The Etymology of 420

NATO Yes, EU No:  Euro-Turkish Music in Berlin

Venice Restored

Young Communists Grow Older

Political Tinsel Town in the Mid-1970s

Is AI Born Biased?

The Most Original Modernist Painting in Venice

Jessica Mitford and Me

Letter From Skopje, North Macedonia

Sound Police at the Oscars

Thomas Crow’s Radical Political Art History

Letter From Peć: The “Lost” Monasteries

The Epstein Affair, Again: “What about the Victims?”

Letter From Peja, Kosovo

World of Art Dutch Painting

In a Dark Wood with Don Giovanni: Mozart in Berlin

Super Bowl Simulcast

An Epic About Capitalism and Detroit

Church Disruptions are Justified

Winter Woes: Dancing to Schubert in Berlin

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Immigrant Songs

Fire from Shadows: Tareq Baconi’s Memoir

Sound Grammar: The Best Jazz Albums of 2025

Sing a Song of $1.5 Trillion

To Each According to His Bank Account

Mud, Poetry and Political Imagination

The Rat Cage is NSPM-7: On Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5

Sound Grammar: the Best Albums of 2025

Cinema Beyond Cinemas: the Best Films of 2025

Booked Up: The Best Books of 2025

Guns and More Guns

My Favorites of 2025

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Read the Room

Poet Anne Waldman’s Star Turn

The Line Between the Sacred and the Profane

In Praise of Art Collecting

Rivette’s The Nun: a Note on Cinematic Censorship

New Bach, Old Doubts

Monet and Venice

H: Kathryn Bigelow’s Empire of Fear

Aeolian Amrum:  Found Sound, Lost Childhood

Eternal Spring:  Emilie Mayer in Autumnal Berlin

Walls of Shame, Hall of Fame: Barenboim in Berlin

The Weather of Memory

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

L’Opera è Mobile: Rigoletto in Berlin 

Smoke and Light in Soho

Teaching as a Political Activity

American History is Black History – We Will Not Be Erased

The Right Side of History Has Never Been the Right

Sic Transit Gloria Maestro

Presidential Caricature

Salonen and the Swans