“The play challenges us to think about those we consider our enemies, and to think of them with compassion and understanding.”
Interview
Music Interview: Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins on “Songs of the Recollection”
“I may second guess how a song was recorded. But I can say that all that we have done has come from an honest place.”
Theater Interview: The Need to Make Theater in Ukraine Today
We live on the stage of my theater now.
Concert Review/Interview: America at Lowell Memorial Auditorium
In Lowell, America played to a packed, enthusiastic, Centrum Silver-popping crowd who sang along with the band’s impressively deep roster of hits.
Music Interview: Good News — The Wailin’ Jennys Are Back
All three are singer/songwriters whose individual gifts mesh seamlessly with soaring harmonies and a like-minded empathetic view of the world.
Visual Arts Interview: Lisa Kessler’s “Heart in the Wound” — Reassessing Sexual Abuse, Power, and the Catholic Church
“The abuse in the church has very unique and cruel twists to it. And, as one of the oldest continuous patriarchal institutions in the world, looking at the church helps us to reflect upon how many established institutions, including families, help perpetuate and conceal violence throughout society.”
Author Interview: Jan Brogan on a Revelatory Murder in Boston’s Combat Zone
The Combat Zone is more than simply a captivating exposition of legal proceedings and adjacent matters. It is an incisive, vivid, jarring, and meticulous account of — as the subtitle says — “murder, race, and Boston’s struggle for justice.”
Author Interview: Linda Hirshman on the Battle Against Human Bondage
“I always wanted to write about abolition, because abolition is the most successful social movement in American history.”
Television Interview: “Poetry in America” Host Elisa New — “Poetry is in all of us”
Viewers are drawn into an active, immersive experience watching the series. They come away with the feeling that poetry is in them.
Author Interview: “Embattled” — Can Ancient Greek Myths Help Us Resist Tyranny?
“By cultivating our capacity for empathetic critical inquiry, Greek myths caution us against entertainers, pundits, politicians, and journalists who are trying to inflame our anger and fear.”