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Book Review: India Through a Daughter’s Eyes: The Turbulent Journey of “Mother Mary Comes to Me”

October 4, 2025
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This account of a formidable mother and equally formidable daughter is an absorbing read that packed the memoir form to the gills and demanded my attention.

Film Festival Reviews: New York Film Festival’s 2025 “Revivals”

October 2, 2025
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Because NYFF’s “Revivals” supplement showcases new restorations, the expectation is that these movies, including art films from around the world, should become more widely available down the road.

Film Review: Dispatch From the New York Festival — “After the Hunt”

October 2, 2025
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“After the Hunt” churns up issues that feel several years behind the curve (hello 2007 and Harvey Weinstein).

Film Review: Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” Grapples with Pain, Power, and Self-Worth

October 2, 2025
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This is far from a conventional sports drama: it is a study of a man’s struggle for sense of personal worth and relevance

Children’s Book Reviews: Invitations to Read and Learn

October 2, 2025
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Two new non-fiction books offer important information for young readers — about the fight for reading and learning about their bodies.

Concert Review: Junction Trio Journeys Through the Demanding Sonic Terrain of John Zorn

October 1, 2025
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The Junction Trio offered the coolest show in town — an afternoon of experimental music that highlighted their virtuosity as individual players and as a unit.

Book Review: “The Endless Week” Offers a Brave, Inside-Out Internet Novel Experience

September 30, 2025
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“The Endless Week” is a brave, uneven, at times brilliant swathe of prose. Experimental? For certain. Perhaps the only way to write an Internet novel is by looking from the inside out.

Book Review: Barrymore Shadows — “Too Fast, Too Short” Does Justice to the Life of a Nepo Orphan

September 30, 2025
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Jennifer Ann Redmond’s sympathetic approach to Diana Barrymore’s disastrous life is valuable because it rejects the poor-little-rich-girl tropes. She was more than a debauched debutante or fallen starlet.

Book Review: “Matisse at War” — The Makings of a Spy Thriller

September 30, 2025
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All in all, this is a crisp, entertaining, and, so far as I can see, an accurate account of the last acts in Henri Matisse’s career.

Visual Arts Review: Immersed in Memory and Flight: Andrae Green’s “Paradise/Mash-Up” at the BCA

September 29, 2025
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For the artist Andrae Green, where land and sea meet is not a line, but an immersion.

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