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James Lee Burke’s “Clete” is Beat poetry, suffused with sadness and longing for all those sunsets now gone.
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In her insightful commentaries and art, Hana Miletić demonstrates how labor and materiality reflect subtexts of power, ranging from the “soft” to the “hard.”
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The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
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Film historian Peter Cowie’s writing is always intelligent, if somewhat dry, and normally correct in its evaluations of Ingmar Bergman’s films.
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This week’s poem: Anthony Robinson’s “A Short History of Belles-Lettres”
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Despite its undeniable fun, Christopher Durang’s play feels somewhat quaint a decade or so since it was written.
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Director Takashi Miike’s latest is a killjoy of a film: it doesn’t want to have fun with its material, but it’s impossible to take it seriously.
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The excellent ensemble of Huntington Theatre Company actors, fittingly, work well as a team.
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The enthusiastic spirit of “Lost Soulz” is appealing enough to make what feels like two different types of movies sutured together dramatically satisfying.
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Book Review: “Freeman’s Challenge” — Essential Reading on Prisons, Slavery, and Profit
The prison was the first in the nation specifically designed to generate a profit for everybody but the laborers.
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