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Tony brings you two hours of music from the best decade ever, with hits from Tom Jones, Jose Feliciano and Neil Diamond. This week, the top three comes from 1965. In the second hour, you choose the ...

In his latest collection of stories, Tóibín endows his characters with plenty of feelings but fewer words By Anjum Hasan “It is hard to know who we are. The dead have gone from us; that much is true,” ...

AMHERST, Mass. — Brian House, in long beard and muck boots, leads me through a pine forest on a cold afternoon until, on the edge of a marsh, we find it: an array of three circles formed by plastic ...

Vargas Llosa introduces us to Toño Azpilcueta, who, at the age of 50, has experienced his share of moderate highs and devastating lows as a self-proclaimed “proletarian intellectual.” Years ago, while ...

For most of human existence, listening was closely tied to moments that carried meaning, emotion or survival. Nature supplied the backdrop – wind, water, animals – and music surfaced in hunting ...

One of Broadway’s most beloved musicals is headed back to Philadelphia. "The Sound of Music" returns to the Academy of Music from March 31 through April 5 as part of a new North American tour marking ...

When I returned from home in the middle of November I brought with me a copy of the record. I showed it to a couple of people. “Simon and Garfunkel?” they said. “Are you kidding?” “It’s number one in ...

“We used to use our culture to understand cancer. Now we use cancer to understand our culture.” (From NPR interview of Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of ...

Before synthesizers, before recording studios and before artificial intelligence, there were voices. In tones and qualities unique to each person, wonderfully diverse vocalists have woven their songs ...

The elevated genre project is directed by Joyce A. Nashawati and starts shooting in Greece this week with Millie Brady and Elsa Lekakou. “Sound of Silence,” a gothic horror feature telling the true ...

It’s axiomatic in the commercial theater that two shows always sell: “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Sound of Music.” Why? Both are beloved works of genius that are generous when it comes to human ...