Wisdom, insights and observations from this weekend’s Arts & Leisure section. (Click on links for complete articles.)
“When I fall for something, I fall hard. Yet I don’t think I’ve ever fallen as hard for anything as I did for Mr. Sondheim’s music. His songs and shows became central to my life, insinuating themselves into my heart and mind.”—Joe Nocera on falling for the music of Stephen Sondheim. Mr. Sondheim’s book “Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes ” has just been published.
“I grew up with stories about Uncle Eli: the little kid who was always getting into mischief; the Army medic who served in the European theater in World War II; and, most of all, the star of stage and screen.”—A. O. Scott on the actor Eli Wallach, who is also the critic’s uncle. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is honoring Mr. Wallach with a lifetime achievement Oscar this year.
“ ‘With the Internet and satellite TV and translations from and to Arabic, writers in Syria are not isolated from the world. It is not like it was 30 years ago. We can publish elsewhere. There can be a public fuss. But in a sense this only makes the situation feel worse for younger writers because we can dream.’ ”—the novelist Rosa Yassin Hassan, speaking to Michael Kimmelman about the complexity of being an writer in Syria today, at a time when artists are contending with both omnipresent censors and growing commercial globalization.
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