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Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov I recently heard the awesome violinist Alexi Kenney* lead the San Francisco Symphony in Vivaldi's Four Season...

He made much great music . This one is kind of a fusion version of speed metal. I have it on vinyl. Generally not my thing, but wow.

The Hours Michael Cunningham A riff on Mrs. Dalloway , with its themes of madness, beauty, sexuality, and choosing between living and death,...

Some of the best-sounding music ever made . Way too young.

Our next Poet Laureate is an excellent choice... Child of Chinese immigrants, teacher at Institute of American Indian Arts... How did this ...

Summertime is the time for crime novels, one of the genres my mother always called "escapist literature." And couldn't we all ...

A giant .