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Classical Album Review: Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s Brilliant and Stylish “My American Story – North”

January 23, 2025
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The keyboard wizard’s latest album both continues a trend of expansive projects that take the long view and celebrates the decade-plus the virtuoso has resided in the United States. It is a blast.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

January 23, 2025
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This week’s poem: “Pointy Weeds Die High”

Concert Review: PoemJazz — Pure Poetry, Pure Music

January 22, 2025
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“PoemJazz” is a project where music and poetry reinforce each other, where the declaimed poetry works like the sung line of a song — though Robert Pinsky never sings or pretends to.

Film Review: “Presence” — The Spectre of the Middle Class

January 22, 2025
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More than the threat posed by the ghost, “Presence” is desperately terrified of ambiguity.

Dance Preview: Feeling Together — Omayra Amaya’s Flamenco Returns

January 21, 2025
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International flamenco artist Omayra Amaya’s upcoming Boston shows represent a moment of both reunion and reflection.

Book Review: “There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas” — A Painful but Essential History Lesson

January 21, 2025
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The publication of “There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas” is especially welcome and necessary at this time.

Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations

January 20, 2025
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One of translation’s greatest powers — its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language, and set of conventions and transplant it into another — is a delicate procedure.

Coming Attractions: January 19 through February 3 — What Will Light Your Fire

January 19, 2025
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Television Review: “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma” — An Abstruse Athlete

January 19, 2025
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“Enigma” is as unlike the standard sports documentary as a Cybertruck is to a F-150.

Podcast Interview: Amy Geller and Gerald Peary on Making “The Rabbis Go South”

January 18, 2025
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The Rabbis Go South tells the story of a little-known episode in the fight for desegregation: 16 rabbis were invited by Martin Luther King to be part of the 1964 civil rights march in St. Augustine, Florida.

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