Robert Israel

Book Review: “Children Under Fire: An American Crisis” — Gun Violence Run Amuck

March 23, 2021
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Children Under Fire examines gun violence in America, focusing on how it is threatening our nation’s children.

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Book Review: “Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch” — Nosh Nirvana?

March 1, 2021
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Jake Cohen is “modern” in that he takes a contemporary approach at spreading the gospel; he is an expert at using social media.

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Poetry Review: “Field Music” — Lyrical Visions of Hardscrabble Vermont

December 16, 2020
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The voice in Field Music is disciplined, its cagey earthiness unfailingly engaging our attention.

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Television/Theater Review: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — Listening to the Lessons of the Blues

December 10, 2020
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a stellar artistic accomplishment, a blazingly powerful dramatic experience.

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Book Review: “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” — Would You Like Time Travel with That Latte?

November 19, 2020
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To his credit, Kawaguchi is a canny enough craftsman to give the time tripping cliché a healthy spin.

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Book Review: Black Food Matters — “The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food”

November 4, 2020
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The Rise is the rare cookbook that does more than offer a culinary and educational journey. It inspires.

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Poetry Feature: Louise Glück Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

October 9, 2020
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Louise Glück crafts her poems with an insinuatingly thorny power that demands the reader pay close attention.

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Theater Review: Penny Arcade — Provincetown, Puritans, and the Pandemic

September 29, 2020
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I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”

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Book Review: “The Atomic Bomb on My Back” — Witness to Apocalypse

August 3, 2020
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Reading Sumiteru Taniguchi’s book brought back my memories of meeting a man who had witnessed the unimaginable.

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Arts Remembrance: Terrence McNally — Dramatist and Father of the Serious Contemporary Musical 

March 27, 2020
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The late Terrence McNally was more than just a masterful playwright. He also forged new roads in musical theater.

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