Freud exhibits at MoMa
Lucian Freud—grandson of Sigmund—is a painter who deals in human imperfection. In the “Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings” exhibition, on ...
Arts & Culture
Murakami imbues ordinary lives with haunting resonance
First translated and published in English in mid-2006, Haruki Murakami’s latest book of short stories, “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is ...
Samsara highlights range of South Asian cultural heritage
“Samsara,” the 16th annual South Asian cultural show, filled Crowell Concert Hall last Saturday with poetry, dance, and music. This ...
Gospel choir spreads love, song
As Pastor Marichal Monts led the Ebony Singers this past Monday, he filled Crowell Concert Hall not only with the ...
Alumnae dance across continents
In its last event of the semester, Wesleyan World Wednesdays sponsored “Dancing Across Continents,” a dance performance and discussion with ...
20-year-old Neruda’s poems of love and despair display genius
It’s freezing outside. Our exams are looming over us. Some of us, maybe, are looking for an escape. Pablo Neruda’s ...
Sneak preview: “The Golden Compass”
It is a tired axiom that a film adaptation will never be as good as the novel it is based ...
The Cine-Files
Since this column (at its worst) amounts to a glorified blog, brace yourself for an uncomfortably intimate confession: I have ...
“Day in the Death of Joe Egg” definitely all it’s cracked up to be
That face: mouth slightly agape; skin pale; eyes at once vacant and burning with mysterious torment. Though complicated and distressing ...
Movie review: “No Country for Old Men”
Cormac McCarthy is the new Herman Melville. The Coen Brothers are the new Howard Hawks. “No Country for Old Men” ...