In 2001, veteran crime writer Ed McBain teamed up with acclaimed literary novelist and screenwriter Evan Hunter to write Candyland: A Novel of Obsession; the book opens with the type of in-depth character study and examination of moral issues for which H...

Nocturne Wenn sich die Nacht über Sils Maria legt, erwachen die Geister des todessehnsüchtigen David (Martin Rapold). Im Angesicht der eigenen Ansprüche an seine Schaffenskraft verzehrt er sich zwischen Genialität und Wahnsinn. David bittet seinen Bruder Gian (Patrick Rappold) in die zeitlose Abgeschiedenheit...

FAURà Nocturnes (complete) * Ãmile Naoumoff (pn) * SAPHIR 1077 (2 CDs: 92:39) Those accustomed to the crisp, briskly straightforward manner of such early 20th-century French players as Jean Doyen or Yvonne Lefébure (whose style was very close to what we know of...

When I picked up Mark Caldwell’s New York Night, I was expecting a romp through Gotham’s fabled wee-hour life—restaurants, cabarets, theaters, jazz clubs, speakeasies, poetry readings. Mr. Caldwell, I thought, would escort me to Mrs. William Backhouse Astor’s famous gilded balls for the Four Hundred,...

Was it Plato who remarked that seeing an image in the clouds signified nothing so much as the lowest form of the imagination? You wonder how the old contrarian would appraise Roland Flexner’s recent works-on-paper on display at Caren Golden Fine Art. Mr. Flexner divines...