Arts
'Phoenix' builds a fable of identity, memory
German director Christian Petzold’s film is a riveting drama that neatly raises profound existential questions in the guise of a...
Memories of a Persian widow
The Girl from the Garden, by Parnaz Foroutan, Ecco, 271 pages, $26.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Being born female in...
Oded Tzur weaves a spell on debut album
Oded Tzur is yet another of the hugely talented musicians from the Tel Aviv jazz scene making a name for...
MJTC’s 'Becoming Dr. Ruth' runs Aug. 20-30
The Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company (MJTC) will stage the regional premiere of Becoming Dr. Ruth, a solo show featuring Miriam...
‘2 Families – 1 Groove’
Ben Sidran returns to the Dakota Jazz Club, where he and his son, Leo, will play with local luminaries Billy...
Two voices weave history, fantasy
A Master Plan for Rescue, by Janis Cooke Newman, Riverhead Books, 320 pages, $27.95 Reviewed by ROBIN DOROSHOW This latest...
A historian’s complicated motives
The Archive Thief: The Man who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust, by Lisa Moses Leff,...
Lee Friedlander photos reveal American culture
Yale University Art Gallery has published the first two volumes of photographs by Lee Friedlander (born 1934). The two handsome,...
In the groove through ‘twintuition’
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR The opening track on The Potash Twins, the new album from identical twins Ezra Potash (bass trombone)...
Pissarro’s mother, a free spirit
The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman, Simon and Schuster, 365 pages, $27.99 Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Around Rachel, the...
