Arts & Letters Daily (31 Aug 2010):
The printing press was not at first used to make books. Rather, almanacs, calendars, municipal orders, indulgence certificates... more
In America, what passes for freedom, or so Jonathan Franzen implies, is a refusal to accept limits, to shoulder the burdens of an inheritance... more
In the wake of Wagner's achievement in Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal, the musical language that had been common property of Western composers fell into crisis... more