Entertainment & Arts
NOBODY ever got far in music on the strength of a parent’s accomplishments, but a little help from a talented father or mother never hurt, either.
July 15, 2007
Books
“The womb is sterile,” Eula Biss observes toward the end of “On Immunity: An Inoculation,” her meditation on the risks and rewards of vaccination, “and so birth is the original inoculation.”
Sept. 25, 2014
Beethoven: Triple Concerto.
July 11, 2004
A CADRE OF RISING STARS FORETELLS A SEASON OF PROMISE, PASSION AND TANTALIZING SURPRISE.
Sept. 19, 2004
Matching and mixing musical colleagues who are both expert and congenial is but the first step in mounting a chamber music festival.
Aug. 11, 1986
In March 2010, as Eula Biss threaded her way through applause onto a stage at the New School in Manhattan, I sat next to the book critic for the Seattle Times.
Nov. 16, 2018
Eula Biss’ last collection, “On Immunity,” exposed our society’s fragile health. “Having and Being Had” takes on capitalism (and defends Joan Didion).
Aug. 25, 2020
Beethoven was a challenger of established notions, his defiant nature nowhere more evident than in his sonatas. Pianists relive the revolution.
Oct. 7, 2007
The first time Jonathan Biss asked for piano lessons, he was 4.
Oct. 3, 2017
World & Nation
The race for Illinois governor will be a battle between two deep-pocketed candidates who’ve already sunk more than $120 million combined into the contest, putting it on pace to become the costliest such campaign in U.S. history.
March 20, 2018