Review

Book Review: America’s “Great Disorder” — A Saga of Creation and Redemption Followed by Confusion and Rancor

April 7, 2024
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“A Great Disorder ” is brisk, bold, and thought-provoking, but the volume’s muddled concept of myth does it in.

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Poetry Review: “The Infinite Field” — From the Personal to the Political

April 6, 2024
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The volume is an ambitious balancing act: the echoes of memory meet the grit of experience, musical language interlaced with occasional thick texture, nostalgic passion counterposed to philosophical calm.

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Film Review: “Farewell, Mr. Haffmann” — Selling the Family Jewels

April 6, 2024
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This is a tense morality play, with twists odd enough (and a palette dark enough) to sustain a noir-inflected thriller of almost two hours.

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Concert Review: Cambridge Symphony Orchestra Explores an Immigrant’s Journey

April 5, 2024
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The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra’s recent performance supplied drama, vigor, and reflection.

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Doc Talk: Wicked Queer at 40 — Embracing the Imagination

April 5, 2024
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Transformative narratives shape the documentaries in the 40th annual Wicked Queer Film Festival.

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Film Reviews: April’s Streaming Docs

April 5, 2024
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By Neil Giordano A selection of notable documentaries currently in the digital universe: Christian missionaries, high school athletics, and a trio of filmmakers who mess with Texas. A familiar story — a young man on a quixotic quest that ends in tragedy — takes a new turn in National Geographic’s The Mission (Hulu, Disney+), a…

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Film Review: “Femme” — Dominating the Dominator

April 5, 2024
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“Femme” proves that finessing the depiction of a toxic romance can lead to some ugly places.

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Concert Review: The Sessanta Tour — Three of Alt-Rock’s Top-Tier Bands Triumphant

April 4, 2024
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Sessanta succeeded in making “old” songs and “old” bands sound powerful, vital, and progressive.

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Design Commentary: The Future of Boston’s White Stadium — A Public/Private Gordian Knot

April 3, 2024
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Many in the increasingly vocal community of stakeholders feel strongly that tradition, history, and student sports will be the victims of this apparent corporate/public conflict.

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Book Review: Vincent Czyz’s “Sun Eye Moon Eye” — Cozy with the Quotidian and the Cosmological

April 3, 2024
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Logan Blackfeather is such a marvelous hero — and he is, in most senses of the word, heroic — that most readers will quickly connect with him and happily trail him through the significant stages of his education.

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