Review

Book Review: Diane Williams, Flash Fiction, and the Shrinking Short Story

November 27, 2018
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Diane Williams’s brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.

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Book Review: Learning from the Master — Elie Wiesel

November 27, 2018
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“I still remember; I sat in his class, and I felt my future changing as he spoke.”

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Concert Review: Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra at Symphony Hall

November 27, 2018
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Without question, this BPYO rendition of Shostakovich Ten was one of the most urgent and necessary of any symphonic score I’ve heard all year.

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Visual Arts Review: Eugène Delacroix at the Met — An Uneasy Fit

November 26, 2018
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Perhaps Eugène Delacroix is best regarded as a leader of the resistance to academic art, part of the transition to impressionism.

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Jazz CD Review: “Long Ago and Far Away” — Together Again

November 26, 2018
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This set is surely one of the finds of the year.

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Classical Music Review: “Widma” — An Imaginative Polish Experiment

November 25, 2018
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This recording challenges our settled sense of what art music, in conjunction with colorful spoken and sung verse, can accomplish.

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Book Review: “Love in the New Millennium” — Inscrutable Passion

November 25, 2018
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This is a bewildering, frustrating, deeply weird novel, densely written and remarkably free of signposts.

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Video Game Review: Spyro the Purple Dragon — Delightfully Reignited

November 24, 2018
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For once, an exceptional reboot of a classic game.

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WATCH CLOSELY: The Coen Brothers and the Enchanting Western

November 23, 2018
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs demonstrates the Coens’ consummate skill for reinventing classic genre tropes, dovetailing deep affection with inspired re-interpretation.

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Concert Review: Tenacious D Returns

November 23, 2018
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Jack Black and Kyle Gass were happily living out their nerdy, rockstar dreams — and their fans were loving it.

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