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Book Review: “The New Climate War” — Enough of the Doomsayers!

May 22, 2021
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This incisive volume will assist the creation of a much-needed collective effort, helping to frame a unified approach to waging combat on those who are destroying the environment for the sake of short term profit.

Book Review: “The Anglo-Saxons” — An Era of Continual Turmoil and Buried Treasures

May 21, 2021
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Medievalist Marc Morris has written an engaging account of turbulent times in a suitable and interesting style.

Concert Film: “P!nk: All I Know So Far” — A Female Performer of Uncommon Power

May 21, 2021
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For fans, this backstage concert documentary is obviously a gift. For others, it will serve as a testament to the power of a woman whose life’s work has made real world impact.

Dance Review: Abilities Dance Boston’s “Firebird Ballet” — Taking Inspiring Flight

May 21, 2021
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Re-envisioning and performing this beloved classic ballet with dancers that identify as disabled seems to me to be the definition of courageous.

Opera Album Review: An Extremely Effective Operatic “Pasticcio” Made by Vivaldi from His Own Arias and Those by Other Composers

May 21, 2021
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Vivaldi put this opera together using, in part, arias associated with two famous singers: the “Moorish” (i.e., half-African) Vittorio Tesi and the castrato Farinelli.

Poetry Review: Marcia Karp’s “If By Song” — Verse Passionate and Unruly

May 20, 2021
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This is a volume filled with complex pleasures and pains, assembled with purpose.

Jazz Album Review: Anna Webber’s “Idiom” — Free Improvisation as Potpourri

May 20, 2021
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Descriptions of Anna Webber’s music might make it seem intimidating. It is not — her compositions are stirring, amusing, and delightful, particularly in the shell games they play with variety and coherence.

Film Review: “Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue” — Existing as a Writer in China Today

May 18, 2021
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For those with sufficient patience and imagination — and are eager to learn more about the Chinese literary scene than what’s found in journalistic headlines — Jia Zhangke’s documentary will be an uncommon treat.

Book Review: “The Science of Abolition” — See No Evil

May 18, 2021
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Oh yes, they thought that to treat human beings like livestock was backward and doomed and obsolete and unscientific and fatally inefficient, but if any of them thought it was indefensibly cruel and morally intolerable, they show no awareness by the evidence of this book.

Short Fuse Podcast #40: Inviting Readers into a Brightly Lit Room

May 18, 2021
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Book sales are up, but indie bookstores are struggling. In this podcast, Lauren Cerand suggests ways to promote new titles, particularly those published by independent presses or written by emerging authors.

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