My Tante Rezia was a patron of the arts, one of those silent supporters that every family, every artist, has and needs but rarely acknowledges.

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained; Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse

Nathan Englander’s play, The Twenty-Seventh Man, focuses on the moment that Yiddish culture in Russia died a sudden and unnatural death.

Can recordings of classical music ever be in concert with concert hall performances?

Ayana Mathis’s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie; Andrey Platonov’s Happy Moscow

The European émigré who became a philosopher of American cinema.

The Canadian artist who transformed the Vancouver art scene.

As Zero Dark Thirty reminds us, Americans have yet to face the torture committed on our behalf. 

Lingeman’s new book looks at postwar America through the lens of film noir.