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Book Excerpt: Helen Epstein’s “Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid”

Just after Covid arrived in North America, journalist Helen Epstein was diagnosed with endometrial cancer — one of a predicted 66,570 new cases of cancer of the uterine body in the United States in 2021.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Uncategorized Tagged: cancer, COVID, Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid, Helen Epstein

Film Review: The Documentary “The Will to See” — Muckraking, Fierce and Absorbing

Again and again, we are taken in The Will to See to places where regular reporters never venture, and certainly not filmgoers.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope, documentary, Gerald Peary, The Will to See

Short Fuse Podcast #53: Gwendolyn Brooks — A Poet’s Work in the Community

Nic Caldwell talks with Elizabeth Howard about poet Gwendolyn Brooks, her work, and the recent acquisition of her personal papers for the Morgan Library and Museum collection and the exhibition he curated.

By: Elizabeth Howard Filed Under: Books, Featured, Podcast Tagged: Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet's Work in the Community, Morgan Library and Museum, Nic Caldwell, Podcast, Poetry

Book Review: “The Hawk’s Way” — Up-Close and Personal with Birds of Prey

Sy Montgomery raises the question of our relationship to the world and all its animals and nudges us toward the view that even predators deserve our support and admiration because of the value they bring to our planet.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: animals, Birds of Prey, Ed Meek, Sy Montgomery, The Hawk’s Way

Television Review: “Hacks” — Even Funnier on Tour

It is not unusual for most series to hit a sophomore slump, but Hacks manages to avoid this fate, partly because of how deftly it expands on its original premise.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Hacks, Hannah Einbinder, HBO, Jean Smart

Book Review: The South – What Jim Crow Was and Wasn’t

We need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.

By: Jeremy Ray Jewell Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Adolph L. Reed, Jeremy Ray Jewell, Jim Crow, Racism, The South, The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

Visual Arts Review: “Matisse: The Red Studio” – A Lesson in Objects

Making the viewer draw visual connections among Matisse’s pieces in the title painting is at the core of MoMA’s The Red Studio.

By: Melissa Rodman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Matisse: The Red Studio, Melissa Rodman, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art

Theater Review: “Sabina” — The Compelling Force of a Female Mind

The musical’s book, lyrics, and score are strong enough to warrant productions elsewhere.

By: David Greenham Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Anita Stewart, Carl Jung, musical, Portland Stage Company, psychoanalysis, Sabina, Sabina Spielrein, Sigmund Freud, Stephanie Machado

Filmmaker Interview: Arlington’s Eric Stange on his Documentary “Pony Boys”

This is a delightful and moving tale that provides a much-needed bit of relief from the chaotic world we are currently navigating. Back before there was iPhones and social media, two little boys took off on an unlikely adventure that changed their lives.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: " Eric Stange, documentary, documentary short, Expo 67, Jeff Whittemore, New England, Pony Boys

Album Review: Maine’s Kioea — Reviving the Sound of Surf Guitar

With summer coming, this progressive surf combo’s new recording promises to make an ideal soundtrack for the season.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Carand Burnet, Jason M. Rubin, Kioea, surf music

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