Review
Tiger King 2 comes off as a freak show that is content to scream “look at how insane these people are!”
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Peter Heise’s King and Marshal (1878), one of the most-performed Danish operas, is melodic and atmospheric, here sung and played persuasively.
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The album is not so much a step forward as a distillation of what The War on Drugs has always done well.
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Above and beyond Mario Vargas Llosa’s political outlook, his latest novel proves that he remains at heart a master storyteller.
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For a movie starring a kid, this one is adroitly crafted and goes easy on the treacle.
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The Anomaly is an entertaining philosophical critique, suggesting that nothing is as it seems, knowledge is imperfect, and the human predicament will perhaps always be more inexplicable than we can admit to ourselves.
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A mightily played, deeply felt, and finely recorded album from Trio Con Brio.
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Two recent books offer illuminating, behind-the-scenes looks at beloved soul music labels. .
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Leigh Barrett’s staging reflects a clear-eyed understanding of the power of the material’s simplicity, which makes The Last Five Years an exceptional musical experience: thought-provoking as well as captivating.
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Book Review: Samuel R. Delany’s “Dhalgren” — A Critical War of Words
The jury’s in. The critics who agreed with an early assessment that 1975’s Dhalgren is a “literary landmark” get to touch champagne flutes and congratulate one another.
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