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“Library Lion,” wonderfully staged by Adam Theater, marks the arrival of a new and welcome addition to the Boston theater scene.
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Vince Gilligan’s new series is ambitious, visionary, and artfully realistic, teeming with topical and timely references that make us wonder if, indeed, this shit might actually be happening in the real world, too.
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Although the work seems timeless, its modernity reflects a culture that reveres its age-old traditions and preserves them over many generations.
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Start the new year with this trio of books about the ups and downs of family life.
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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.
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Extensive and eclectic, DOC NYC is a sampling of documentary films for the coming year. These favorites are worth searching out.
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Olivia Laing’s hard-driven narrative, set mostly in 1975, combines a gay romance with a literary text about the dangers of resurfacing fascism, a discourse on 20th-century avant-garde film-making, and a political thriller.
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Many of the poems in this new collection take in the world through a distinctively painterly eye for scenes and sketches.
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The Disco Biscuits chose Boston as its base for a three-night New Year’s run that unfolded in three different venues.
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Arts Commentary: From the Editor’s Desk — By Popular Demand, 2026
A selection of my top newsletter columns for 2026.
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