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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.
Gauri Gill’s work is shaped by a dense visual language in which light, composition, and texture are not secondary elements but stand as active components of meaning.
In praising poetry’s power, Ada Limón leaves clarity—and craft—behind.
Jennifer Jean’s bilingual collection reveals how contemporary Arab women poets redefine storytelling, identity, and survival.
Juan Ramón Jiménez’s “Eternities” could be considered a gallery of invisible tongues schmoozing at heaven’s bandwidth.
A diary of shows attended – good, bad, and indifferent — at this year’s Big Ears Festival, as well as comments on some of the non-musical joys and hassles.
Kristoffer Borgli’s A24 feature flirts with social relevance but ends up exploiting a reality it refuses to confront.
Claude Lanzmann’s haunted pursuit of testimony and Henrietta Szold’s humanitarian legacy illuminate the enduring power of courage and conscience.
This week’s poem: Michael Franco’s “from The Book of The Night Sky [A BOOK OF MEASURE VOL TWO] SIXTH CIRCUMFERENCE”
“Hacks” has been one of the best sitcoms in recent years.
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