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Christopher Seufert’s “Memento Gorey” offers an intimate, cluttered, sometimes illuminating portrait of the artist’s final years, but its unedited conversations rarely penetrate the mystery at their center.
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A new edition of “The Man with Night Sweats” brings the poet’s formal restraint, domestic intimacy, and unsparing attention to individual loss into sharper focus.
A new annotated translation of “Past & Thoughts” restores the Russian revolutionary writer’s intimate family drama and brings his penetrating critique of tyranny, populism, and political extremism to American readers.
In “Silent Depths,” Kristian Sensini responds to the suffering of civilians in the West Bank and Gaza with sincere, accessible music that ultimately needs greater tension and complexity.
Orlando von Einsiedel’s documentary follows an Indian portrait artist’s extraordinary bicycle journey from Delhi to Sweden—and the improbable love story that inspired it.
Curtis Stewart transforms two dozen American songs into inventive, virtuosic studies for solo violin.
Rhino’s reissues of “Best I” and “Best II” reveal the breadth of the band’s music and the striking parallels between Steven Morrissey and Andy Warhol.
Performing Arts Feature: Huzzah! Renaissance Faires as Immersive Theater
King Richard’s Faire, which is New England’s largest and oldest medieval-themed entertainment venue, serves as an intriguing case study of countercultural expression and commercialized theatrical spectacle.
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