November 15–22, 2001 cd reviews|classical/new music Sofia Gubaidulina The Canticle of the Sun / Music for Flute, Strings & Percussion (EMI Classics) Dear Christoph Eschenbach, As music director-elect of our beloved Philadelphia Orchestra, you will soon be in a position…

June 14–21, 2001 books Out of the Frying Pan… Chinese dissident Su Xiaokang’s troubles only began at Tiananmen. by Andrew Ervin A Memoir of Misfortune By Su Xiaokang (Zhu Hong, trans.) Knopf, 329 p., $24 There has never been a…

May 17–24, 2001 books Resurrection Blues Neglected novelist Richard Yates comes back from the grave. by Andrew Ervin He is risen: The late Richard Yates, resurrected in print. Richard Yates (1926-1992) was one of the most spectacular literary voices our…

May 17–24, 2001 books Resurrection Blues Neglected novelist Richard Yates comes back from the grave. by Andrew Ervin He is risen: The late Richard Yates, resurrected in print. Richard Yates (1926-1992) was one of the most spectacular literary voices our…

March 15–22, 2001 book quarterly Inner City Blues Man of steel: Pittsburgh emigré O’Nan. Stewart O’Nan goes back to Pittsburgh for Everyday People. by Andrew Ervin In his seven works of fiction to date, Stewart O’Nan has written in any…

February 8–15, 2001 books See-Through The Glass Palace is too transparent to satisfy. by Andrew Ervin The Glass Palace By Amitav Ghosh Random House, 476 p., $25.95 There’s nothing seriously wrong with Amitav Ghosh’s latest novel, The Glass Palace. The…

January 18–25, 2001 music Scotch and Soul Pipes dream: One Philly institution deserves another. The strange career of Philadelphia jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley. by Andrew Ervin In November 1963, the winter of America’s discontent, a young Philadelphia musician named Rufus…

January 18–25, 2001 music Scotch and Soul Pipes dream: One Philly institution deserves another. The strange career of Philadelphia jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley. by Andrew Ervin In November 1963, the winter of America’s discontent, a young Philadelphia musician named Rufus…

May 17–24, 2001 books Resurrection Blues Neglected novelist Richard Yates comes back from the grave. by Andrew Ervin He is risen: The late Richard Yates, resurrected in print. Richard Yates (1926-1992) was one of the most spectacular literary voices our…