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What one really wishes is that the Seattle Opera’s Ring Cycle had been released as a DVD.
National Pride (and Prejudice) wants us to reexamine the relationship between a country’s iconic images and its not-so-reassuring realities.
“I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race.”
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, author events, and theater for the coming week.
Assaf Gavron’s sweeping, smart, often funny new novel spins a satiric update on Exodus.
After 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.
“Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare.”
Theodore 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.

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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