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Arts Remembrance: Poet and Illustrator Joan Walsh Anglund

March 17, 2021
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Throughout her career, Joan Walsh Anglund remained humbled and amazed by her success, maintaining a quiet and private life.

Book Review: “One Left” — The Silence of Enslaved Women

March 16, 2021
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This Korean novel dramatizes, with indelible force, the utter dehumanization of women confined to authoritarian patriarchal imprisonment.

Book Review: “This Is Not My Memoir” — André Gregory’s Rich, Plentiful, and Complicated Life

March 12, 2021
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I have only one criticism of André Gregory’s fabulously entertaining book: I wish it was twice as long, or even three times its 208 pages.

Book Review: “Acts of Desperation” — The Ordinary Flip-Flops of Desire

March 10, 2021
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This debut novel concentrates on the vagaries of desire, but in a spare, uncomplicated, and natural fashion that sets it apart from any formulaic romance.

Book Review: “Mike Nichols: A Life” — Portrait of a Protean Artist

March 4, 2021
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This nearly 600-page text is a closely detailed, comprehensive portrait by a biographer riveted, as many of us are, by his charismatic subject.

Literary Remembrance: Lawrence Ferlinghetti — The Modest Beat

March 3, 2021
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Ferlinghetti was a truly Whitman-like figure who really had been through it all, traveled the world, and fought for what he believed in. I have yet to hear anyone say an unkind word said about him.

Book Review: “Jew-ish: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch” — Nosh Nirvana?

March 1, 2021
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Jake Cohen is “modern” in that he takes a contemporary approach at spreading the gospel; he is an expert at using social media.

Book/Film Interview: Leslie Epstein on “Casablanca” and “Hill of Beans”

February 25, 2021
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An interview with Brookline’s own Leslie Epstein on his new novel, the inexhaustible freshness of Casablanca, and the need for truth in historical fiction.

Book Review: “Second Time Around: From Art House to DVD”

February 23, 2021
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The book’s conceit is that D.A. Miller watches films he’s seen earlier in life with enhanced perception because of the possibilities offered him through the DVD lens.

Book Review: “No One is Talking about This” — Tale Of Two Realities

February 18, 2021
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You will come away impressed by Patricia Lockwood’s skillful literary play — enjoy an escape from your own Internet miasma, and then be affected by a powerful contrast to it.

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