How do you write the “political history” of a piece of music? The idea isn’t as farfetched as you might…
Several months ago, a friend came to me outraged over Dan Brown’s thriller, The Da Vinci Code. He read the book,…
Let’s be honest, why would anyone want to watch a race between a human and a giraffe, or eavesdrop on…
In Austria, labor unions were up in arms. No, they didn’t want higher wages or better benefits. They wanted the…
The Return of the King, the final installment of the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, opens today, and like its predecessors,…
Tomorrow, The Return of the King, the final chapter in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, opens in theaters across…
After seven years in the making, the final film of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, opens this…
Christmas is almost here, and if you’re like me, you’re probably not sure what to get some of the people…
Many historians consider him the most influential figure of the second millennium. Our ideas about the individual and the inviolability…
Note about the liner notes on the CD discussed below: The translation of “Abwoon” is, in our opinion, not good.…
