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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.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Andrew “Andy” Puopolo, Jan Brogan, The Combat Zone

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.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: a Prophet, abolition, and a Contessa Moved a Nation, Blake Maddux, Frederick Douglass, Linda Hirshman, Maria Weston Chapman, The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, William Lloyd Garrison

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.

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Television Tagged: Elisa New, Poetry, Poetry in America, WGBH

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.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower us to Resist Tyranny, Emily Katz Anhalt, Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

Film Feature: Making “Speer Goes to Hollywood”

Albert Speer, Hitler’s pet architect and the vaunted “glamour boy of the Third Reich, would have hated Vanessa Lapa’s unblinking and unforgiving documentary, which is the best recommendation I can give it.

By: Thomas Doherty Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Albert Speer, Andrew Birkin, Joëlle Alexis, Speer Goes to Hollywood, Thomas Doherty, Vanessa Lapa

Author Interview: Robert A. Gross on “The Transcendentalists and Their World”

“Concord was actually surprisingly representative of Massachusetts, New England, and maybe even the North in the 19th century. In learning about Concord, you learn about the making of modern America.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Blake Maddux, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert A. Gross, The Transcendentalists and Their World

Author Interview: David Livingstone Smith on Dehumanization and “Making Monsters”

Making Monsters “is a wake-up call. We need to seriously address the phenomenon of dehumanization if we are to have any hope of constraining it when things get really difficult.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview, Preview Tagged: David Livingstone Smith, dehumanization, Harvard University Press, Making Monsters, Nazism, Racism

Film Interview: Foster Hirsch on “Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King”

“I’m hoping people will revisit Otto Preminger’s movies because he made some of the best films ever made in America.”

By: David Stewart Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: David Stewart, Foster Hirsch, Otto Preminger, The Man Who Would Be King

Jazz Review and Conversation: Jane Ira Bloom’s Pandemic Duets

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.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Jazz Tagged: Allison Miller, Jane Ira Bloom, Mark Helias, Some Kind of Tomorrow, Steve Elman, Tues Days

Jazz Feature: A Conversation with Jane Ira Bloom

I spoke with Jane Ira Bloom on September 21, 2021 via Zoom. This transcript has been edited for space and ellipses have been omitted for readability. Some paraphrases and details are added for clarity.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Interview, Jazz Tagged: Jane Ira Bloom, Steve Elman

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