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Theater Review: “The Game’s Afoot” — Ploddingly

November 28, 2023
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Murder mystery and farce can coexist in the same play… for a time, at least. Eventually, the two will pull apart, however, as they do in this production.

Album Review: Mr. Joe Jackson Presents: Max Champion in “What a Racket!”

November 26, 2023
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If you’re brave enough to dip your toes into a musical unknown, there are pleasures a-plenty to be had in this recording, in which Joe Jackson takes us on what purports to be a musicological excavation of the works of a long-forgotten figure of the English Music Hall era.

Film Festival Review: DOC NYC – Families and Insects

November 25, 2023
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Three first-rate documentaries at DOC NYC that examine the crimes of the past and the fragility of the present.

Film Review: “Cade: The Tortured Crossing” — The Weird Uncle Crankery of Neil Breen

November 25, 2023
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Simply put, there’s nothing (and no one) out there quite like what Neil Breen is putting out into the world, and for that alone, we should be grateful.

Book Review: “All the Years Combine: The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows” — Grab a Bong

November 25, 2023
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“All The Years Combined” is best approached as yet another voice in the ever burgeoning conversation about the evolution of the Grateful Dead.

Opera Album Review: Hot News — Award-Winning First Recording of a Major Contemporary of the Young Verdi

November 25, 2023
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The whole recording reminds me that numerous forgotten but extremely accomplished nineteenth-century works can provide rich satisfactions when performed as well as this

Book Review: “The Body of the Soul” — Life is a Game Worth Playing

November 24, 2023
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Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories are fatalistic in spirit, but not morose.

Book Review: “Democracy Awakening” — The Rise of Authoritarian Vistas

November 24, 2023
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This is a brilliant book that explains, with engaging clarity, why our politics have reached their current frightening nadir.

Poetry Review: Ishion Hutchinson’s “School of Instructions” — Lured Through History

November 23, 2023
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Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson’s New-World, nonwhite perspective claims its own stake in a history that we have come too much to associate with its imperialist heavyweights.

Book Review: “The Last Fall” is Up for the Count

November 23, 2023
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Sheldon Goldberg’s engaging first novel spotlights the world of pro wrestling.

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