I am a book critic for The New York Times. I’m culturally omnivorous and go out (concerts, theater, ballet, movies, opera) too often. Here are a few things I’ve found sustaining → Jan Persson/PBS ...

All music is, as are all our greater gestures and pursuits—poetry, painting, literature, sculpture, dance—spiritual by nature. An outreach by the artist and thus, by extension, us, beyond the daily ...