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Here are some wonderful offerings to get you through the gloomy months ahead, including under-sung and under-seen horror baubles that you may have missed.
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One of pianist Edward Simon’s strengths is his ability to be simultaneously romantic and clear-headed, precise and suggestive.
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Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.
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Ludwig Hohl belongs in the line of such lucidly contentious thinkers as Karl Kraus, Pascal, and Lichtenberg, commentators whose writing oscillates between the traditions of literature and philosophy.
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The range of Kurt Elling’s repertoire is astonishing and his program at Jimmy’s was commensurately ambitious.
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This anthology, for all its occasional sadness, is optimistic about the future of immigration to America.
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The selection of foreign films on offer at the BFI London Film Festival was of a very high quality.
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Jane Ira Bloom responded to her pandemic isolation with a CD of duets with bassist Mark Helias and a CD of duets with drummer Allison Miller. These two sessions are unique projects in her discography and beautiful testaments to her ingenuity.
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No woman, I’m willing to bet, could have filmed the sex scenes in Red Rocket. She would have cracked up laughing or thrown up.
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More homages to 1971’s magnificent bursts of cinematic iconoclasm, from McCabe & Mrs. Miller to The Music Lovers and Walkabout.
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Visual Arts Commentary: John Singer Sargent — A Particular Sort of Loner