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Today, Elizabeth Kolbert’s book remains an important reminder of what is at stake — nothing less than the future of life on earth.
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Three new picture books offer help for kids wanting to be perfect, giving feedback, and finding your place in the world.
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A trio of films in which certainty and security have been disrupted and people must make the best of what remains.
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James Lee Burke’s “Clete” is Beat poetry, suffused with sadness and longing for all those sunsets now gone.
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In her insightful commentaries and art, Hana Miletić demonstrates how labor and materiality reflect subtexts of power, ranging from the “soft” to the “hard.”
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The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
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Film historian Peter Cowie’s writing is always intelligent, if somewhat dry, and normally correct in its evaluations of Ingmar Bergman’s films.
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This week’s poem: Anthony Robinson’s “A Short History of Belles-Lettres”
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Despite its undeniable fun, Christopher Durang’s play feels somewhat quaint a decade or so since it was written.
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Director Takashi Miike’s latest is a killjoy of a film: it doesn’t want to have fun with its material, but it’s impossible to take it seriously.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025