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Book Review: “My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein” — Looking for “It” in All the Wrong Places

June 11, 2026
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Deborah Levy’s playful Parisian fiction delivers vivid reflections on Gertrude Stein but it is in danger of stumbling over its own cleverness.

Doc Talk: Long Strange Trips at the Provincetown International Film Festival

June 10, 2026
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Portraits of a legendary critic and modern Deadheads highlight what’s gained—and lost—when culture resists critique.

Theater Review: “Bad Books,” Worse Behavior

June 10, 2026
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Sharon Rothstein’s sharp drama shifts the focus from censorship to the corrosive culture of public shaming.

Television Review: “Cape Fear” — Restraint Revives the Fear Factor

June 10, 2026
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Apple TV’s reboot leans into slow-burn menace over Scorsese-style excess, with Javier Bardem channeling the original film’s unnerving restraint.

Film Review: “Disclosure Day” — Broadcasting the Truth?

June 9, 2026
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Steven Spielberg revisits extraterrestrial wonder with technical virtuosity, but his media-age fable drifts into sentimentality and soft-focus optimism.

Theater Review: “Eureka Day” — Groupthink Gone Viral

June 9, 2026
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Jonathan Spector’s successful satire finds biting comedy—and uneasy truth—in the limits of well-meaning consensus.

Book Review: “Death of the Soccer God” — A Life Replayed at Gunpoint

June 9, 2026
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Dimitri Elias Léger’s novel turns a final moment into a sweeping meditation on love, history, and the Beautiful Game.

Book Review: “The Yahoo Boys” — Love for Sale

June 9, 2026
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“The Yahoo Boys” dissects a global grift fueled by digital intimacy, economic despair, and willful belief.

Concert Review: Little Feat’s Farewell Tour — No Signs of Fadeout

June 8, 2026
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 At Indian Ranch, Little Feat balances nostalgia and renewal in a high-caliber stop on its “Last Farewell Tour.”

Classical Music Album Reviews: Semyon Bychkov and Paavo Järvi conduct Mahler

June 8, 2026
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Orchestral splendor meets interpretive risk in two Mahler releases.

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