Thomas Larson is a 20-year staff writer for the San Diego Reader, the author of four books (one on music: The Saddest Music Ever Written: The Story of Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”), former music critic for The Santa Fe New Mexican, and the author of hundreds of essays, articles, and commentaries on literature, art, and music. His website is www.thomaslarson.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

A Plurality of Traditions: Anthony Davis and the Social Justice Opera
The socially driven dream-telling of Anthony Davis’s political operas....

Leo Tolstoy and the Origins of Spiritual Memoir
Thomas Larson evaluates the spiritual and artistic innovation of “Confession” by Leo Tolstoy....

Lives Nurtured in Disadvantage: James Agee and Walker Evans's "Cotton Tenants"
Triptych image: Walker Evans, "Sharecropper's Family, Hale County, Alabama," 1935 IF THE CONTEMPORARY READER of nonfiction knows anything about the ...

Let Us Now Praise Free Men
IF YOU’RE ONE of the unorganized working poor who inhabit the grimmest parts of Delhi, India, you’re ...
