University of Chicago Press
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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This is an important book, a powerful account of the decline of California as America’s paradise.
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It’s hard to imagine many of Gail Mazur’s poems emerging from anywhere else than from inside Route 128.
Read MoreReading Little Kisses is reassuring — and that is a valuable attribute given the times we are living in.
Read MoreRoger Grenier wears his considerable learning lightly. His writing is a graceful dance of the intellect.
Read MoreFred Turner’s counterintuitive and subtle argument in The Democratic Surround draws a direct line between the design of museum exhibitions and the Be-Ins of the Summer of Love.
Read MoreIn her groundbreaking study, Tufts University professor Alisha Rankin essentially revises the history of medicine by showing that women, presumed to be marginal in the development early modern medicine, were actually major players.
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Music Commentary: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest versus French Quarter Fest