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Book Review: “The Miró Worm and the Mysteries of Writing’ — Pursuing Creative Inwardness

October 16, 2024
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The ascendancy of digital life is acknowledged as unshakable, but in these essays Sven Birkerts offers useful insights into how serious writers can carry on.

Book Review: “Hard to Watch” — How to Love Demanding Films

October 15, 2024
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“Hard to Watch” lays out a pragmatic path — directions for how to preserve your time and attention —  that will help just about anybody engage with any kind of art thoughtfully and purposefully.

Jazz Album Review: Andrew Hill’s “A Beautiful Day, Revisited” — Well Worth the Return Trip

October 15, 2024
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The recording proves to be both an excellent example of Andrew Hill’s unusual creative methods, particularly the wonderful results he managed to get with ensembles.

Book Review: “Blue Light Hours” — Unimpeachable Noticing

October 15, 2024
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Bruna Dantas Lobato’s sensibility is unmistakably original: she explores her protagonist’s life and surroundings like a dowsing rod, poking into closets, corners, and cupboards.

Television Review: “Witches: Truth Behind the Trials” — Just the Facts

October 13, 2024
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There are valuable lessons here, but I are afraid that this docuseries will be overlooked among all the more enticing, and sensationalized, witchy watchings. 

Opera Album Reviews: A Major Classical Label Arises — Four More Fine Baroque Operas

October 12, 2024
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Each of these four works has its own flavor, and lovers of Baroque and Classic-era music will happily scoop up one or more of the recordings.

Theater Review: “Nassim” — Word Play

October 11, 2024
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The script is an experiment, a (sometimes) witty lecture on language. But it doesn’t work dramatically.

Film Review: “The Apprentice” — Marinating in Malignance

October 11, 2024
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It’s Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Roy Cohn that hangs in this not-very-good movie like a Rembrandt on the cracked plaster of a La Quinta suite by the airport.

Book Review: “The Second Shot” — An Incomplete Story

October 10, 2024
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This memoir is, in part, Gene Yu’s effort to give credit where credit is due for his rescue of a woman kidnapped by the Jihadist terrorist group Abu Sayyaf.

Book Review: “Not Even Nominated” — They Shoulda Been Oscar Contenders

October 10, 2024
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Critic John DiLeo argues that even the Academy Awards can make mistakes. And, in the process, he constructs an alternate history of who should or should not have been Oscar nominees.

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