Commentary
Book Appreciation: Celebrating Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life” –The Best Novel of the 21st Century
In “Life After Life,” novelist Kate Atkinson has shown how boundless the imagination can be.
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Gutting a venerable department – particularly a world-renowned one that, by all accounts, delivers – in the name of belt-tightening is shortsighted and foolish.
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In the end, what strikes me most about “Vertigo” is its melancholy, its aura of grief, its mood of inevitable, irredeemable loss.
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Robbie Robertson was born and raised in Canada but he seemed to understand the American myth better than most of his southern neighbors did.
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“Free Them All”‘s analysis of the broken prison system and the obstacles facing those determined to find solutions combines scholarly discipline with a powerful, emotional appeal for justice.
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Tony Bennett’s enthusiasm for life and music was persuasive, even when it seems outsized.
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Black and openly queer women are not allowed in the Nashville club. Secretly gay white men are not doing too badly, though.
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Theater companies all over the country are cutting back or shutting down. And the bad news just keeps coming.
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Long before the current writers’ strike, Hollywood was sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI.
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Arts Commentary: Chile’s 9/11 — the Undying and the Undead
Two Chilean artists look at the death of democracy and the aftermath of the 1973 coup.
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