If you think about it a certain way, one of the defining qualities of jazz is earnestness. This is one of the reasons why jazz and metal have so much in common, and so often appeal to the same ...

Whether you’re scrambling for a last-minute gift or laying in your own stores for winter reading, these faculty titles have ...

Nora Holt was the first Black person in the United States to earn a master’s degree in music. A prolific composer and a club-hopping socialite, she once wrote a 42-page work for a 100-piece orchestra.

Thurston Moore, who has a memoir, “Sonic Life,” and is completing a novel, “Parsnip & Boomerang,” visits the Strand and ...

The essays gathered in We’re Alone by Edwidge Danticat, Wun Tsun Mellon Professor of the Humanities, trace a loose arc from ...

Montreal is alive with musical theatre at a very high level these days, with the winter and spring seasons promising a lot ...

Fifty years later, a man who grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very overdue baseball book to his boyhood library.

Shields said there is something beautiful about the book as a printed object, and many of the pieces in the collections, ...

I have continued to listen to at least three hours of WHRB each day since I started almost 65 years ago. For 35 years, I ...

The “Word of Science” clue was, “nobelprize .org says some papers of this scientist ‘are stored in lead boxes,’ a ‘legacy ...

Christmas music tests an artist’s creativity. If they’re covering a song, how do they give their version a reason to exist?

The Milton Community Band filled the air with festive melodies during its annual holiday concert on Dec. 8, delighting dozens ...