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Jazz Album Reviews: Matthew Shipp — A Splendidly Many-Sided Pianist

November 12, 2020
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Three recordings that testify to the chameleonic power of the (usually) avant-garde pianist Matthew Shipp.

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World Music CD Reviews: Percussionist Julian Gerstin and Guitarist Todd Mosby Go Their Own Way

November 11, 2020
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These superb CDs, from musicians who are doing it their own way, on their own labels, celebrate the realms below and above us: the sea and the sky.

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Film Review: “I Am Greta” — A Superb Love Song to a Teenager Fighting to Save the Planet

November 11, 2020
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As Greta Thunberg travels the world, invited to speak to government bodies everywhere, she doesn’t every mince her words or try to build bridges. “You have messed up the environment!” is her shrill, righteous message.

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Book Review: “Fangirls” — In Praise of Fanatics

November 10, 2020
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Fangirls is a funny and poignant survey of an essential coming-of-age experience.

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Pop Review: Gorillaz’s Exhilarating “Song Machine”

November 10, 2020
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Song Machine rejuvenates the band’s core identity; it is the best music Gorillaz has made in a decade.

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Television Review: “Paranormal” — Egyptian Ghost-busting

November 9, 2020
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The spooky adventures in this Netflix/Egyptian produced series are entertaining enough to deserve a second season.

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Film Review: Freud Never Asked What Men Want, “The Climb” Tells Us

November 8, 2020
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The terrific The Climb looks at bro-bonding in a way you’ve never quite seen.

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Book Review: “The Silence” — Brusque Prophecy

November 7, 2020
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Many Don DeLillo fans will overlook this novella’s somewhat stilted dialogue and perfunctory erotic scenes for the sake of another taste of his dark and knowing world.

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Poetry Review: “Any Song Will Do” — A Very Worthwhile Discovery

November 6, 2020
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Donald Levering’s poems exhort us to be less left-brained, to side more often with intuition, creativity, flights of fancy.

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Book Review: A Brilliant “Homeland Elegies” — Indispensable Witness

November 5, 2020
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What Ayad Akhtar reveals, with stunning detail and a passion and an urgency rarely seen in American fiction, is that his is a story marked by a loneliness similar to that found in Melville, Dreiser, and T.S. Eliot, among others, and that puts him squarely in their company.

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