American theatre critic
Critic-at-Large for The New York Times since 1996. B.A., Brandeis University ; M.S., Columbia University. Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
Popular music is one endless love song that, I suspect, the basically solitary Ella Fitzgerald approached much as the basically solitary Marianne Moore approached poetry: reading it with a certain contempt for it, Moore said, you could find a place in it for the genuine.
Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution. .
