March 1, 2017May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Robert Lowell at 100: Thoughts on “Life Studies,” Oscar Night, and “Manchester by the Sea”
February 22, 2017May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner “The Other Half of His Heartbeat” — Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray Bonding In Battle
February 15, 2017May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Looking for Truth and Finding It in Ray McKinnon’s “Rectify”
February 8, 2017May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Symptoms of Love: The Abiding Presence in C.K. Williams’s Farewell Volume
February 1, 2017May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Schubert’s Winter Journey Leads to America: A Westminster Birthday Celebration
January 25, 2017May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner “We’re Not in Kansas Any More” — Hello Goodbye Obama On the Morning After
January 18, 2017May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner As D-Day Looms, Einstein, Kafka and Camus Sail to Sea In a Beautiful Pea-Green Boat
January 11, 2017May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Skating on Thin Ice in Shakespeare’s “Pericles” and Jacques Rivette’s “Paris”
January 4, 2017May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Beautiful People: In Which Dr. Chekhov Helps Perform a New Year’s Post-Mortem
December 28, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner From Russia With Love — Champagne, Chekhov, and Constance Garnett
December 21, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Christmas Riffing in the City of Dreams With Count Basie and the Centenarians
December 14, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Reimagining “Dr. Strangelove”: Twitter Storms and Doomsday in Post-Election America
December 7, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner More Essential Than Ever: Leonard Cohen Stands Before “The Lord of Song”
November 30, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Nothing to Declare But His Genius — Oscar Wilde Rocks America
November 23, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Providing “Proof of Life” Face to Face, Bruce Springsteen Tells His Story
November 16, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Highs and Lows from Washington to Kosovo: The World According to PJ Harvey
November 9, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner On Turgenev’s Birthday: Rereading “Fathers and Sons,” the Book That Created a Storm
November 2, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner The Love Song of Emily Brontë, or Halloween With Heathcliff and Cathy
October 26, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Once Upon a Time in New York City — Goodbye Checker Cabs, Hello NoMad Hotel
October 19, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner “Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now, The Hour Is Getting Late”: Literature, the Nobel, and Bob Dylan
October 12, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Charlotte Bronte at 200 — Love Duets, Dark Debates, and the Passion of Jane Eyre
October 5, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Waiting for Salinger’s Last Novel: A Preview of Next Week’s Library Book Sale
September 28, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner “A Living Presence” in the Culture of Our Time : Looking Ahead to Election Day With Herman Melville
September 21, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner Serving Up a Jazz Feast for Slim Gaillard’s 100th Birthday
September 14, 2016May 17, 2021 Stuart Mitchner “It’s Inescapable” — Two Hundred Summers Ago Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein