When you consider how little serious reviewing or cultural criticism we get (The Globe Arts section will always keep us up to date on box-office totals and star divorces), it does look as if the dead-tree media are dead or moribund. But sometimes...
This New York Times review by Edward Rothstein of a museum exhibition on Islamic science makes it sound like a fascinating show to see -- and simultaneously raises serious questions about the impartiality of the whole thing.
Update: so with the Times about to start charging for online access to its content, will readers value it enough to pay?
