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Book Review: Celebrating the Forceful Art of “Three Strong Women”

August 14, 2012
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In the heartrending “Three Strong Women,” award-winning novelist Marie NDiaye infuses her Senegalese women characters with a personal sense of dignity and a strong belief in self.

Arts Commentary: A Few Notes on “The Dark Knight Rises”

July 29, 2012
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When I first learned of the shooting in Aurora, I immediately thought, “Wonder how long it’ll take until someone blames the movie.”

Visual Arts Review: Ansel Adams — Water as Motion and Time

July 20, 2012
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By using water as a lens to explore Ansel Adams’s artistry, this exhibition makes his fascination with motion and time crystal clear.

Book Review: The Survival of the Fittest Yarnspinner

July 12, 2012
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Reading “The Storytelling Animal” is akin to listening to a series of terrific humanities lectures given by a polymath professor with a P.T. Barnum streak.

Classical CD Review: Groundbreaking Bach on the Mandolin

July 10, 2012
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Avi Avital, a young virtuoso determined to expand the repertoire, is the first mandolinist ever to be signed to a contract with Deutsche Grammophone. His recording of Bach for the label is an important milestone for the mandolin.

Book Review: “The Lair” — The Intoxicating Trauma of Exile

July 6, 2012
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Norman Manea’s compelling novel “The Lair” tracks the ambiguities, contradictions, and confusions of the exile’s psyche as he struggles to find footing in surroundings that are often unintelligible. It is a highly cerebral, labyrinthine book, filled with mystery, paranoia, and illegible codes.

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.

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.

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.

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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