Review

Book Review: Medicine, Morality, and the Women of “The Double Standard Sporting House”

January 17, 2026
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For those ready to make the investment, “The Double Standard Sporting House” is a fascinating look inside a complex and compelling world.

Film Review: “Dead Man’s Wire” – Getting Even Can Be Very Dark Fun

January 16, 2026
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When big business steps on a small man, watch out!

Book Review: Imagining a World Beyond Prisons — Anna Terwiel’s “Prison Abolition for Realists”

January 14, 2026
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“Prison Abolition For Realists” makes a strong case for persevering in a contest that will probably take a long time to win.

Jazz Album Review: Kris Davis Expresses Environmental Grief Through Music in “The Solastalgia Suite”

January 13, 2026
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In its evocativeness, shapeliness, and meaningful drama, “Solastalgia Suite” is Kris Davis’s masterpiece… so far.

Film Review: “Cover-Up” Reminds Us Why Investigative Journalism Still Matters

January 11, 2026
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Given the current administration’s attacks on independent journalism, “Cover-Up” couldn’t be timelier.

Book Review: Trapped in the Present Tense — The Bleak Masculinity of David Szalay’s “Flesh”

January 11, 2026
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David Szalay’s novel focuses on a current type of western male: one whose emotional growth and adult development are stunted or limited by his inability to express himself and understand who he is.

Book Review: Blonde Ambition in Postwar Britain: Lynda Nead’s “British Blonde” and the Performance of Desire

January 9, 2026
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Lynda Nead’s meticulous, competent, and impressively researched approach gives the work weight without making it ponderous; “British Blonde” seems destined to serve as a text for classes in gender or cultural studies. 

Book Review: “The Musical Lives of Charles Manson” — Scenes from a Counterculture

January 9, 2026
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Nicholas Tochka is less interested in crafting a coherent portrayal of Charles Manson’s “musical lives” than in connecting his critical hypothesis of “the invention of the Sixties” to critical theories.

Book Review: Choreographer George Balanchine — Cavalier or Creep?

January 8, 2026
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“Balanchine Finds His America” is written primarily in the present tense, so that reading the book is like watching a never-to-be-repeated dance performance.

Concert Review: Mozart Still Draws a Crowd –The Boston Artists Ensemble Perform the Prussian Quartets

January 7, 2026
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The performances made one thing clear: what had in Mozart’s day been a failed musical venture now makes for show-stopping pageantry.

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