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Music Interview: Digging into “Porcupine Meat” with Bobby Rush

October 10, 2016
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Singer Bobby Rush is not just a world-class entertainer, but also one of the last masters of traditional blues.

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Coming Attractions: October 16 through 25 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 9, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Book Interview: A New Take on Kafka — A Conversation with Peter Wortsman

October 9, 2016
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The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Widmann and Brahms at Symphony Hall

October 7, 2016
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The intellectual and emotional intelligence of the docket stands as a conspicuous example of exemplary programmatic creativity.

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Visual Arts Review: More than a Painter of Fish — William Merritt Chase at the MFA

October 7, 2016
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The variety of this exhibition amply proves that William Merritt Chase brought great painterly insight to much more than just the daily catch.

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Book Review: Analyzing Musical Fisticuffs — “Your Favorite Band is Killing Me”

October 7, 2016
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Steven Hyden doesn’t really pick a side in these fights; he’s broad minded enough to know and enjoy every artist’s work.

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Book Review: “The Lesser Bohemians” — The Desires of the Flesh, Revived

October 6, 2016
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In The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride seems to be determined to combat the soullessness of pornography.

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Film Preview: Sasha Lane on the Heroic Honesty of “American Honey”

October 6, 2016
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“It was really hard to get to certain places and bring up memories and experiences and put that out there.”

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Book Review: Rabih Alameddine’s “Angel of History” — Knocked Askew

October 5, 2016
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This is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #10 — Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Frieze”

October 4, 2016
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Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze is, without a doubt, one of the major symphonic scores of our century.

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