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Film Review: “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” — Act Now!

April 9, 2023
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For these eco-warriors, it’s payback time: they didn’t start this fight, but they are determined to finish it.

Concert Review: Le Vent du Nord — Five Formidable Quebecois Voices

April 9, 2023
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Touring to support their 20th anniversary CD, 20 Printemps, Le Vent du Nord delivered  a master class in musicianship.

Children’s Books Roundup: Spring Is Here!

April 4, 2023
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There are so many ways to celebrate the arrival of spring with kids. You can take a walk in the rain, look for flowers or grass sprouting in sidewalk cracks, or plant a garden. After your adventures, you can settle down and read these books.

Book Review: “Look at the Lights, My Love” — Meditations in a Superstore

April 4, 2023
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Can Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux lend literary dignity to a big-box store?

Book Review: Susanna Hoffs’s “This Bird Has Flown” — A Satisfying Romcom

April 4, 2023
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All in all, This Bird Has Flown is light but not brainless, and engagingly adorable. It’s a perfect beach read for the New Wave set.

Visual Arts Review: Minimalism — An Incomplete Project

April 3, 2023
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What, we are led to wonder, is the project of minimalism today?

Book Review: Mona Simpson’s “Commitment” — E for Effort

April 3, 2023
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Another installment in the author’s portraits of everyday struggles — and this one is a long-winded, shaggy affair.

Book Review: “The Ghost at the Feast” — Three Cheers for American Interventionism

April 3, 2023
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The problem with The Ghost at the Feast is that the story it tells undermines its final argument. If America blundered by staying at home during the interwar period, it is blundering even more now by going relentlessly abroad.

Graphic Novel Review: “¡Ay, Mija!” — An Entertaining Mexican Adventure

April 2, 2023
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Christine Suggs’s graphic novel is comforting, but it also offers serious proof of why representation, and its embrace of diversity, is so important.

Jazz Album Review: Pianist, Arranger, and Composer Oscar Hernández — Master of Latin Jazz

April 2, 2023
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These superb recordings provide ample proof that Oscar Hernández is at the pinnacle of his career as the leader of two divergent musical aggregations.

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