Keith Meatto
By Keith Meatto
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The Schmooze El Judio Maravilloso on Stage With Grupo Fantasma
In the salsa world, they call him El Judio Maravilloso, the Amazing Jew. And when the legendary pianist Larry Harlow — born Lawrence Ira Kahn — joined the funk orchestra Grupo Fantasma on stage last night at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, he delivered on his nickname. It was a moment of generational fusion. Harlow,…
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The Schmooze Containing Multitudes: Tim Blake Nelson’s ‘Leaves of Grass’
In “Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman transformed his life into a poetic portrait of America and all its vastness, diversity, and tension. More than 150 years later, writer-director Tim Blake Nelson does something similar in his “Leaves of Grass,” a film that draws on his native Oklahoma, his college days at Brown, and his Jewish…
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Culture Don’t Throw Stones
THE GLASS ROOM By Simon Mawer Other Press, 405 pages, $14.95 A rich young couple hire a star architect to build them a dream house with a living room made of glass. High on newlywed bliss and the envy of their neighbors, they view their home as “a kind of perfection, the finest instrument for…
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Culture Eating Animals Are Wrong
Eating Animals By Jonathan Safran Foer Little, Brown and Company, 352 pages, $25.99. As a novelist, Jonathan Safran Foer writes with a certain whimsy about violence. In “Everything Is Illuminated” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” fictional treatments of the Holocaust and the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks contain humor and lyricism to…
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Culture Treasure in Cuban Ruins
Ruins By Achy Obejas *Akashic Books, 205 pages, $15.95. * In 1994, more than 100,000 Cubans fled the island on improvised boats, abandoning their homeland, and 35 years of revolution, to seek a better future. Cuban-born poet, journalist, and novelist Achy Obejas sets her new novel, “Ruins,” in Havana during that exodus, but focuses on…
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