Review

WATCH CLOSELY: Hallowe’en Horror From Your Couch

October 6, 2018
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A handpicked list of cinematic horror gems for you to watch over the next 26 days.

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Television Review: “Barry” — The Trials and Tribulations of a Low-Rent Hitman

October 5, 2018
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One of Barry’s strongest attributes is its brand of dark, surreal, and unexpectedly witty satire.

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Concert Review: The New England Conservatory Philharmonia at Jordan Hall

October 5, 2018
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What wasn’t there to love about 20th-century music on a night like this? In a word, nothing.

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Jazz Concert Review: Dirigo Rataplan at Bowdoin College

October 5, 2018
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Jazz band Dirigo Rataplan explores what could be described as ‘chamber expressionism.’

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Book Review: “The Farm” — Obsessed With The Land

October 4, 2018
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There can be no future, Héctor Abad seems to be arguing, when everything you are is hidden away in a time you can never fully know.

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Theater Review: “Ben Butler” — Civil War Laughs

October 3, 2018
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A comedy about slavery poses considerable challenges in our #blacklivesmatter times, but the characters bounce gleefully through endless rounds of verbal sparring.

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Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer

October 2, 2018
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The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?

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Book Review: “A History of France” — Outsized Heroes on Horseback

October 2, 2018
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In all of his books, John Julius Norwich remembered that history is a story.

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Poetry Review: The Devolution of Eileen Myles

October 1, 2018
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One of the fears of poets and, I imagine, all writers, is that you’ll reach a certain age and you’ll run out of gas.

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Jazz CD Review: Darren Barrett’s “Time for Romance”

October 1, 2018
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Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.

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