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Theater Review: “Job” — Terminally Online

January 25, 2026
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“Job” is not so much a game of cat-and-mouse as a highly pressurized coffee klatch.

Book Review: “Old Man Evil” — Vincent Czyz’s Cartography of Conscience

January 25, 2026
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In this collection, Vincent Czyz’s imagination covers extensive geographic and historical territory, creating maps whose borders are drawn with the vigor of a nuanced moral temperament.

Film Review: “The Chronology of Water” — Stormy Depths, and Stillness

January 24, 2026
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How often do we see movies that successfully delve into what it means to become a mature adult after a traumatic childhood?

Film Review: “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” — A Bloody Apocalypse

January 22, 2026
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Fans of this ongoing horror narrative will find much to appreciate in its latest chapter.

Rock Concert Review: A No-Frills Attack from the Post-Punk Quintet Shame

January 22, 2026
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Shame’s latest record and Monday’s holiday show at the Brighton Music Hall both prove the twin-guitar quintet has matured in sound and spirit while still flashing youthful spunk.

Book Review: Dissecting the Past — Andy McPhee’s Chilling History of America’s Medical Progress

January 22, 2026
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For all its rewards as a gross-out experience, “The Doctors’ Riot of 1788” has an ethical question at its core: does the search for medical knowledge outweigh our respect for human life and death?

Film Review: Love, Distance, and What Remains — “Father Mother Sister Brother”

January 21, 2026
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Jim Jarmusch’s films resist cliches and conventional dramatic formulas — understatement is the rule.

Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Seeks Unity in “E Pluribus Unum” Festival

January 20, 2026
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Reflecting on our divisive politics, BSO music director Andris Nelsons told the concert audience that “Every tunnel has light at the end.”

Children’s Book Reviews: Classics — New and Reissued

January 20, 2026
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Enjoy an instant classic for kids and an established classic that is newly available.

Rock Album Review: A Road-Tested Revelation — Mike Mattison’s “Turn a Midnight Corner”

January 20, 2026
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“Turn a Midnight Corner” is one of those records that has the right mix of risk and guile. It doesn’t so much tell a story as summon one, track by track.

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