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Book Review: “Cool For America” — A World of Dazed Impermanence

July 10, 2020
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Hardly a portrait of glory from sea to shining sea, these tales drop in on estranged, lost, and overwhelmed people.

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Book Review: “Crooked Hallelujah” – On Mothers and Daughters

July 10, 2020
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Crooked Hallelujah is a splendid debut, its intricately structured narrative following four generations of a matriarchal family from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

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Album Review: Khruangbin’s “Mordechai” — Mostly Musical Wallpaper

July 10, 2020
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Khruangbin’s principal strength lies in how well the musicians manage to fit together

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Book Review: “American Radicals” — Unrecognized Champions of 19th-Century Protest

July 9, 2020
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American Radicals is as revealing, riveting, and well-researched as any work of history that I have read in recent years.

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Visual Arts Commentary: “Placemaking” — Thoughts on the Virus and Our Current Public Environment

July 9, 2020
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Today, our perception of the environment has become narrowed, defensive: the outside world has become worrisome, dangerous, aspirational, and changing.

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Television Review: Delightfully Revived “Baby-Sitters Club” — More Than ’90s Nostalgia 

July 8, 2020
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During a period when we are facing a ferocious pandemic, the biggest Civil Rights movement since the ’60s, and the possibility of flying snakes, it is the perfect time to remake the cheery The Baby-Sitters Club.

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Jazz Album Review: “Ballads for Two — Chet Baker and Wolfgang Lackerschmid”

July 8, 2020
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The playing on this 1979 album, which would generally be considered as flawed, is part of the singular (mature) Chet Baker gestalt.

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Film Commentary: Fellini at 100 — How the Mighty Have Tumbled

July 7, 2020
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It seems evident that hardly anyone knows about the centenary of a moviemaker who, in earlier days, was universally revered, whose hallowed name was synonymous with art-house cinema.

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Book Review: “How to Be an Antiracist” — A Helpful Step in Overcoming America’s Racial Divide

July 7, 2020
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A more accurate title for Ibram X Kendi’s engaging and compelling book might be:” How I learned to think like an antiracist and how you can too.

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Jazz Album Review: Dave Pietro’s “Hypersphere” — Complexity, Made Clear

July 7, 2020
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Dave Pietro is a fine, distinctive composer, an agile, precise saxophonist, and a band leader to be trusted.

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