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Considering the current political climate and its accompanying cultural backlashes, BUFF’s (continued) commitment to diversity in film feels especially pointed in its 25th incarnation.
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Here’s hoping that Adam Sherman and Robin Lane remain a creative item and continue to write and record new material. Both are in late-career resurgences and have devoted fans that fill the smaller clubs they typically perform in to the brim.
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Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of an ordinary soldier’s life in the trenches of WWI remains shocking and shattering today.
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“When I think about blues music, I think about the musicians that came before me and what they had to say, all of those amazing guitar players. They were really playing a form of protest music.”
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A pair of pleasant traversals of the French master’s complete piano music, or thereabout, from the still-relative-newcomer Seong-Jin Cho and the established Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
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“Heart-work,” Roberta Silman’s new collection of stories, looks at the knotty intricacies of domestic life.
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This week’s poem: Gloria Monaghan’s “The Catbirds”
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The Russian dramatist’s expansive application of ridicule, his picture of human society as an endless chain of fools fooling fools fooling fools, couldn’t be more fitting — it is a funhouse mirror of our times.
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Two picture books explore issues of gender, self-identity, and gender stereotypes for a young audience.
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The fourth and final season of Danny McBride’s demented comedy comes to a satisfying conclusion.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues