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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Michael Klein’s new collection weaves brushes with artistic giants into candid meditations on addiction, desire, and survival.
A skeptical listener finds phrasing, groove, and quiet authority in an 85-minute Boston set.
A reconfigured band and evolving arrangements made Bob Dylan’s Boston set vital, strange, and rooted in “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company celebrates its milestone season by revisiting A Midsummer Night’s Dream, reaffirming its mission to make Shakespeare a truly public art.
A sprawling 250th‑anniversary display sidles up to hot‑dog branding and influencer playfulness.
DC/DOX spotlights documentaries that confront the human cost of tourism, policing, and surveillance—alongside bold experiments in nonfiction form.
Novelist Milo Todd discusses his novel “The Lilac People” and the challenge of reconstructing queer and trans lives under—and after—Nazism.
Big questions, wild beasts, and one very independent pet
Arts Commentary: When Books Become Evidence — Hong Kong’s Raids and the New Global War on Dissent
Every bookshelf becomes a latent crime scene: China’s all-too-familiar totalitarian playbook to encourage self-censorship.
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