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Assaf Gavron’s sweeping, smart, often funny new novel spins a satiric update on Exodus.
Read MoreAfter reading this scholarly and accessible biography, I am convinced that Storm Jameson’s life is a must for anyone fascinated by the history of women writers in the 20th century.
Read More“Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.”
Read MoreTheodore Dreiser’s The Titan is not the greatest novel about American business, but it is still among the best, an honorable runner-up that turned 100 this year.
Read MoreA beloved figure to both the local gospel community and deep southern soul collectors, Bishop Lee Mitchell has passed following a long illness.
Read MoreIf your tastes run to finely crafted songwriting, then the standout event between Christmas and New Year’s is when Melissa Ferrick and Marshall Crenshaw roll into Club Passim on separate nights.
Read MorePerhaps Top Five is Chris Rock’s penance for doing lucrative-paying voices for the insanely popular Madagascar animation franchise.
Read MoreThe success of this short novel set in Japan lies in the empathy it creates for a pair of ordinary and lonely characters.
Read MoreIn The Gambler, Mark Whalberg gives a performance he should be proud of.
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Arts Commentary: The View from Free — 2014 Edition
The exploitation of the free labor of artists may finally have hit a critical mass in 2014, generating enough publicity to make observers righteously angry.
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