Review

Jazz Album Review: Shakespeare’s Sonnets — Jazzed and Sometimes Overwrought

October 18, 2026
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Singer Caroll Vanwelden’s “Shakespeare Revisited” brings a flexible voice and adventurous textures to the sonnets, but its melodies and production too often overwhelm the poetry.

Book Review: The Swallows Are Watching — Radka Denemarková’s Dark, Restless “A Contribution to the History of Joy”

October 18, 2026
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In this ambitious Czech novel, a detective’s inquiry into an apparent suicide becomes a meditation on violence against women, historical memory, and the possibility of joy.

Film Review: “Misty Green” — Hollywood Dreams, Bitter Aftertaste

October 17, 2026
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By Neil Giordano A stellar Rosalind Eleazar anchors this sour Hollywood parable, but Chris Rock’s performance and an overstuffed screenplay undermine its bite. Misty Green, written and directed by Chris Rock. Screening at AMC Boston Common 19, Landmark Kendall Square, Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, and AMC Causeway. Depending on your age, you may know Chris Rock…

Classical Music Album: The “Righteous Rage” of the Bassoon

October 17, 2026
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Rebekah Heller’s new album celebrates the instrument’s power, agility, and surprising expressive breadth.

Book Review: The Cambridge Five — Stripped of Romance

October 17, 2026
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In “Stalin’s Apostles,” Antonia Senior dismantles the mythology of the gentleman spy, exposing the murderous loyalties behind the old school tie.

Book Review: A Berkeley Renaissance, Reassembled

October 17, 2026
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A new anthology gives long-overdue shape to an influential but unjustly forgotten chapter in twentieth-century American poetry.

Concert and Album Review: Threadgill, Iyer, and Prieto — 15 Years, One Distinctive Voice

October 16, 2026
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At Harvard, the 82-year-old composer-saxophonist joined Vijay Iyer and Dafnis Prieto for a taut, wide-ranging evening of angular melody, open space, and rhythmic surprise

Doc Talk: The Simulation According to Musk

October 16, 2026
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In Alex Gibney’s exhaustive documentary, Elon Musk emerges as a visionary, a menace, and a man determined to escape the world he has helped imperil.

Film Review: “Clown Panic” — Bring on the Clowns, Spare Us the Grand Theory

October 15, 2026
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Ed Perkins’s documentary finds a fascinating story in America’s 2016 creepy-clown craze, then buries it beneath sweeping analogies and frantic editing.

Film Appreciation: “The Devils” – The Devils in Me

October 15, 2026
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The provocative 1971 study of politics, religion, and sex in medieval France is back on the big screen—with its long-censored footage reinstated.

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