Criticism-in-finity!
Posted in Reviews on Aug 29th, 2012
All art suffers from classification problems, and music, especially generic categories, can quickly grow baggy and indistinct, or splinter and subdivide. Consider: the Wikipedia entry for “Heavy Metal” lists forty-nine different subgenres and sub-subgenres, each trying to stake out some territory, to insist “this is what we’re all about.” Or there’s “Classical,” somehow home to [...]
Posted in Reviews on Aug 15th, 2012
Because I write and edit for a living, I am probably too critical of the ways in which I hear English used. Some pet peeves: people who use the word like like a lot; the word bro; beginning too many sentences with So… (an offense of which I am guilty); and most recently, overuse of [...]
Posted in Reviews on Aug 8th, 2012
… It is a directed silence, more than a pause, an implication, a prompting … I want you to know that something has been left out, but I am not going to tell you what that thing is … No literary text I’m aware of uses the ellipsis more than Pär Lagerkvist’s Barabbas, which won [...]