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Author Interview: Writer Vincent Czyz — To Create a World

September 6, 2022
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Writer Vincent Czyz (and Arts Fuse critic) talks about his wide-ranging essay collection The Secret Adventures of Order.

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Jazz Retrospective: The Indelible Impact of “Emergency!” by the Tony Williams Lifetime

September 6, 2022
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If you don’t know those 1969 originals, get them and listen to them. And if you know the recordings well, listen to them again. No matter how familiar this 50-year-old music is to you, you’ll be struck by its timelessness.

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Book Review: Steve Stern’s “Village Idiot” — Painted into a Corner

September 6, 2022
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Steve Stern’s novel about the Jewish expressionist painter Chaim Soutine is more informative than it is engaging.

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Jazz Album Review: Tony Williams’s “Play or Die” Gets Full Release, 40 Years On

September 5, 2022
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The shadow of Weather Report looms over this groove session of consonant harmonies, the only documentation of a short-lived band that should have had the chance to burn more brightly.

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Television Review: “The Most Hated Man On The Internet” — The Fate of Fetid Online Ooze

September 5, 2022
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The Most Hated Man on the Internet tells a legitimate story in which the good guys win, but there is no attempt to answer to any of the larger, uncomfortable, social questions the series raises.

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September Short Fuses – Materia Critica

September 4, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Cultural Feature: Boston’s “Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide” — Still Going Strong After Three Decades

September 4, 2022
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More than 1,400 writers have been featured in G&LR’s uninterrupted run over the last three decades.

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Book Review: “The Undercurrents” — History as a Whisper in Your Mind

September 4, 2022
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Kirsty Bell’s psychological-cultural-topographical-historical walking tour of Berlin is an idiosyncratic delight.

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Film Retrospective: “Early Kiarostami” — One of Cinema’s Great Humanist Auteurs

September 2, 2022
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Abbas Kiarostami was the most important filmmaker to come out of the New Iranian Cinema movement, which spawned works that became staples in film festivals worldwide from the late ’80s on.

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Opera Review: Saint-Saëns’s “Phryné” — Short and Witty, and Rediscovered

September 1, 2022
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A one-hour opera that the world forgot — a world-premiere recording of Saint-Saëns’s Phryné.

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