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Rock Album Review: “Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson” — A Summery Pleasure

I applaud She & Him’s selection of Brian Wilson tunes while at the same time feeling that some are not well-suited to their loungey, languid pop stylings.

By: Jason M. Rubin Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Brian Wilson, Jason M. Rubin, M. Ward, Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson, She & Him, The Beach Boys, Zooey Deschanel

Poetry Review: “Whale Fall” — The Dark at the Bottom of the Ocean

It is dark, so very dark, at the ocean’s bottom. And yet, there is also a disquieting, wonder-filled magic in the child’s moon which hovers over these poems; an incantatory moon echoing like a lullaby, drawing on a time of innocence.

By: Alina Stefanescu Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alina Stefanescu, David Baker, Whale Fall

WATCH CLOSELY: “The Sandman” is Deliriously Beautiful Art

Creator Neil Gaiman has said for years that he didn’t want an adaptation to be made unless the creative team could do the original justice. Well, justice has been done: this is a seismic cultural event.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Neil Gaiman, Peg Aloi, The Sandman, Tom Sturridge

Poetry Review: “Island Heart” — The Dance of Passion

These poems are of their own time and place — written in Haiti and France early in the twentieth century — yet they remain impressively fresh.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Ida Faubert, Island Heart, Jim Kates, Poetry, subpress collective

Film Review: “Resurrection” — Turning Words into Weapons

Rebecca Hall gives Resurrection the psychological grounding it needs, as the thriller stretches towards a macabre, fable-like payoff.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Andrew Semans, Betsy Sherman, Rebecca Hall, Resurrection

Book Review: “Vladimir” — Sex and Realpolitik in American Academe

This is an entertaining comedy of manners, a sophisticated satire told from the point of view of a feminist professor who is not afraid of committing transgressions in our politically correct age.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Avid Reader Press, Julia May Jonas, Vladimir

Book Review: “The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon” — A New Chapter in the American Story?

What a cruel hoax: the middle class suburban lifestyle, a proud achievement of postwar America and the envy of peoples throughout the world (in no small part due to Mad Men glamorization), contains the very seeds of our demise. If demise is where this is heading.

By: Bob Katz Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Bill McKibben, Bob Katz, Climate Change, Henry Holt and Co, The flag the cross the station wagon

Film Review: “A Love Song” — A Marvel of Humanity

Max Walker-Silverman’s first feature, A Love Song, is a character-driven, humanist, and deeply ecological present to someone of my generation.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Love Song, Gerald Peary, Max Walker-Silverman

Book Review: “The Quiet Before”– How Our Conversations Set the Boundaries of Our Thinking

This superb book about adventures in radical thinking is less about tracking incendiary ideas to their obscure sources than about the various media used to ferment and transmit them.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Crown, Gal Beckerman, The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas

Visual Arts Review: The Supportive Imaginary — Weaves and Grids

Grids come into these woven pieces with a strange humility, disarming us with repurposed materials and precious handiwork, domestic scenes and visionary tales.

By: Helen Miller, Michael Strand Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Bhen Alan, Courtney Stock, Denise Treizman, Emily Auchincloss, Jeffrey Nowlin, Loretta Park, Michael Strand, Natiana Alexandra Fonseca, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, shape_shifting_support_systems

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