Review: Eight Songs for a Mad King

King George III, des­pite hav­ing been a learned and enthu­si­ast­ic spon­sor of sci­entif­ic and indus­tri­al pro­gress, a faith­ful hus­band and fath­er, and in many ways very lib­er­al for his time (except pro-slavery, just say­ing), is basic­ally fam­ous for hav­ing gone mad. That mad­ness has been scru­tin­ized, dia­gnosed, and mocked roundly in mod­ern lit­er­at­ure, film, TV, […]

Tosca top notch

When I invited my friend Keith to Tosca and he told me he’d seen it before, I asked for no spoil­ers. He sent me a text say­ing “Psh. It’s an opera. There is singing. People die. From a fem­in­ist view it is prob­lem­at­ic. That’s about all there is to it”. His text was true, but also […]