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Cultural Commentary: The Rise of Book Product — Fifty Shades of Blech

June 30, 2012
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Book product, much like food product, is manufactured –- from its very inception, designed to make money by shameless pandering to mainstream taste.

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Fiction Review: An Unforgettable “Life of an Unknown Man”

June 7, 2012
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In The Life of an Unknown Man Andreï Makine creates a work of simple elegance that at its core explores the relationship of the past to the present, of truth to art, and of truth to life.

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Book Appreciation: Novelist and Short Story Writer John Cheever At 100 — America’s Chekhov?

June 4, 2012
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May 27th marked what would have been the one-hundredth anniversary of writer John Cheever’s birth. (He was born in Quincy, MA.) June 18th marks the thirtieth anniversary of his death.

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Concert Review: Boston Choral Ensemble — A Must for Anglophiles and Choral Groupies

June 3, 2012
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An astonishing amount of thinking and creativity has shaped the Boston Choral Ensemble concert.

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Fuse Commentary: Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Kitsch? A Glimpse of Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby

May 26, 2012
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Judging by the trailer for The Great Gatsby, it looks as if director Baz Luhrmann’s habitual excess will overwhelm the lyrical beauty and subtle power of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose.

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Theater Review: “Ten Blocks on the Camino Real” — A Tennessee Williams Dreamscape

May 18, 2012
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Beau Jest Moving Theatre has returned to the early, one-act version of Williams’ script, and created a sometimes pleasant, sometimes nightmarish dreamscape.

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Theater Review: The Hilarious Horror of “Little Shop of Horrors”

May 17, 2012
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This family’s twelve-year-old daughter found Little Shop of Horrors to be funny, silly, and wholly enjoyable, further cementing her desire to be onstage as much and as often as possible in the future.

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Music Review: The Touré-Raichel Collective — Nothing If Not Surprising

April 24, 2012
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Between songs Touré and Raichel conferred inaudibly with one another, deciding which tune they would play next. There was very little chatting up the audience, until before the fourth song. Raichel said “Hello, Boston.” Touré asked, “How you doing?” and the audience roared.

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Book Review: “Jane Eyre” Rewired — “The Flight of Gemma Hardy”

April 22, 2012
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Author Margo Livesey has pulled off a considerable literary trick: a page-turner that is also a moving, realistic, subtle, and eminently wise coming-of-age novel.

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Fuse Commentary: All Cultural Things Shining at the Oscars

April 8, 2012
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The core claim of the book is that the contemporary culture is nihilistic in outlook, but unnecessarily so. The authors believe there to be a remedy to our debilitating amnesia —- to integrate our lives, in some ways, into the world as perceived by our cultural forefathers.

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