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“The suburbs of Los Angeles are so often neglected in literature and film because they are so seemingly impervious to adoration.”
Chronicling Stankonia is an engaging read, one that adroitly balances rigorous academic research with a deeply personal narrative about Black life and art in the post-Civil Rights Era in the South.
“I don’t work the system anymore, except as a last resort: I aim instead to bypass it. The better I have gotten at circumventing gatekeepers, the more successful my writing career has been.”
This Is a Robbery is the most complete and compelling narrative yet about the looting of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
In his new book on film directors, critic David Thomson gives us plenty to think about and plenty more to argue about.
Nothing that guitarist Pat Metheny had done previously hinted at this sprawling 1981 masterpiece.
You need to hear this play. Especially if you are white and already “know” Othello. Listen again (and again) and prepare to question old assumptions.
Director Jess Chayes has done all that is humanly possible to stage a lively live production under Zoom constraints.
This is one of the best traditional big band records you’ll hear this year, or maybe this decade.
There’s much to enjoy here and admire, both in the performances and the selections on hand, which hardly dwell on the usual suspects or limit themselves too narrowly.
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