Memories of Jazz Nights
You needed stamina, but the payoff was great
By Phillip Lopate Friday, June 23, 2017
Remembering Cynthia Macdonald
Poet, teacher, opera singer, psychoanalyst, and friend
By Phillip Lopate Thursday, May 11, 2017
Baldwin the Prophet vs. Baldwin the Writer
Can a film really capture the essence of both?
By Phillip Lopate Friday, April 28, 2017
Confronting the Inevitable Subject
A few hundred words, and then I’m done
By Phillip Lopate Friday, August 12, 2016
Remembering Abbas Kiarostami
The great filmmaker was cool, cosmopolitan, and lonely
By Phillip Lopate Friday, August 5, 2016
Letter from Shanghai
The cityscape of the future—and the present
By Phillip Lopate Friday, July 15, 2016
