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These essays and poems present incarcerated men and women as nothing more or less than our fellow humans.
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Werner Herzog likes the odds in “Every Man for Himself and God Against All.”
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Ten years on, Andris Nelsons’s retains his remarkable gifts for expressing the raw power of music with dazzling panache.
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The Israeli-born composer, a professor at Gettysburg College, composes music that intrigues the mind and glistens with fresh sounds.
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Assassinations may be so-last-generation, but gun violence, and what it reflects about American culture and human depravity, defines our own era as much as any.
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This week’s poem: Eliot Cardinaux’s “Said Regression.”
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Performances of such zest and sensitivity deserve to be rewarded with rapt enthusiasm, even love.
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Cockeyed anecdotes roam merrily through a satiric tale set in an East Germany that’s too larky to be oppressive.
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Jazz Commentary: Three More Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — Stretching the Boundaries of the “Conventional”
These projects are more conventionally jazzish in their sounds than the four in the companion post, but that does not make their ambitions less worthwhile or less adventurous.
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