What ‘The Good Wife’ Was Really About

Joshua Rothman: “The Good Wife has never just been a show about power; it has also been about knowledge and the ways it can change an argument, a court case, a life. … Alicia’s insistence upon the truth (for, it must be said, her own practical ends) was part of a larger debate, staged in the final episode, about the question ‘How much do you want to know?'”

An Email Conversation With Elena Ferrante

“The idea that every ‘I’ is largely made up of others and by the others wasn’t theoretical [in Naples]; it was a reality. To be alive meant to collide continually with the existence of others and to be collided with … The dead were brought into quarrels; people weren’t content to attack and insult the living – they naturally abused aunts, cousins, grandparents, and great-grandparents who were no longer in the world.”

Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.19.16

My concert, at last online
I’ll interrupt my posts about the DC Ring, and some of its implications for the future of classical music. Because I want to tell you something special for me — that video of my April … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-05-19

So you want to see a show?
Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-05-19

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Morley Safer Of ’60 Minutes’ Dead At 84

“To an earlier generation of Americans, and to many colleagues and competitors, he was regarded as the best television journalist of the Vietnam era, an adventurer whose vivid reports exposed the nation to the hard realities of what the writer Michael J. Arlen, in the title of his 1969 book, called ‘The Living Room War.'”