George BlecherApr 296 minA Misbegotten Macbeth Descends on BroadwayThe knives are out in this scathing review of the Sam Gold production starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga By George Blecher APRIL 28,...
George BlecherFeb 25 minBoy Wonder at Mid-CareerPaul Thomas Anderson’s rollicking, serious, endearing Licorice Pizza is well worth a trip to a movie theater. It’s an eccentric take on...
George BlecherDec 4, 20216 minThe Lehman Trilogy—A Probing CritiqueSuper-professional acting, glossy production—but do they make a full theatrical meal? Is this play any more than an inflated biopic? By...
George BlecherDec 4, 202113 minGuilty Pleasures in Covid Time Want to be enticed by movies again? These offerings from this year’s 59th Lincoln Center Film Festival will do it By George Blecher Table...
George BlecherJul 22, 20203 minStunned CityAfter three months away from New York, my first impression was that someone had hit it in the stomach with a baseball bat. The city...
George BlecherMay 20, 20205 minI Left My Troubled City Behind. Now I Feel Guilty.My adult son, worried about my health, urged me to flee. But New York doesn’t let go easily. I didn’t want to leave the city. If the...
george.blecherApr 20, 202014 minGhosts on the Landing The following is an excerpt from a manuscript called HOW TO BE ALONE IN DENMARK, which centers around a 300-year-old peasant's cottage...
George BlecherApr 1, 202065 minAngst in the Time of Corona JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR: DAY 1 3/15/20 Starting Journal of the Plague Year on the Ides of March. Hmm. Today's stats: USA infected...
George BlecherAug 3, 201813 minMurder, Politics and Architecture: The Making of Madison Square ParkLATELY, MADISON SQUARE PARK has provided a staging area for provocative art installations, pop-up food courts and outdoor work spaces....
George BlecherAug 15, 20135 minBound to a Place, Despite Life’s ThornsI owned the cottage right from the beginning. Or it owned me. For one thing, it was so old. Later we found it on maps dating back to the...
George BlecherMay 7, 20137 minDavid Foster Wallace: Innocence and ExperienceHe pointed a way for American fiction out of the doldrums of postmodernism, writes George Blecher. For a culture troubled by the...
George BlecherMay 24, 20117 minWhispering on PaperEmail, text messaging and social networks have revolutionized the way we communicate. Yet as the magic of instantaneity fades, George...
George BlecherJun 7, 201012 minWhere People Walk a Mile for a ChuckleTough materialism and existential frankness, an awareness of one’s mortality balanced by the refusal to talk bullshit: George Blecher...
George BlecherMay 22, 20077 minDirty Secrets of a TranslatorNo translator can translate equally well. A lot gets lost in translation. Some languages don’t translate well. These are just some of the...
George BlecherOct 10, 20054 minThe Hidden Face of America’s PoorAt first you don’t notice them. They’re so skinny that in a crowd of three or more at a street corner or in a mall, they disappear. When...
George BlecherFeb 2, 20055 minHealthier in Lungs, Poorer in SpiritEating in a Manhattan midtown restaurant the other night, I happened to glance over at the bar area. People were perched on bar stools,...
George BlecherMar 20, 200410 minThe Leisure Class and IGeorge Blecher discusses the timeliness of Thorstein Veblen’s “Theory of the Leisure Class” and traces his own lust for the...