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Book Review: “The Fallen” — Probing Cuban Paralysis

June 9, 2020
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The Fallen artfully diagnoses the spiritual and material maladies of contemporary Cuban life through the lens of a single family, a household threatened by decay, exterior and interior.

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Television Review: Netflix’s “Space Force” — Sucked into a Black Hole

June 8, 2020
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Maybe Space Force will figure out what kind of comedy it is and launch into a rejuvenated second season turn. Though that assumes it will get a second season.

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Opera CD Review: An Album of Beethoven Arias? Soprano Chen Reiss’s Imaginative New Solo Disc Pulls it Off

June 8, 2020
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Immortal Beloved is a CD that will appeal to lovers of fine singing and to people curious about some hidden corners of Beethoven’s output.

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Book Review: “Hiding in Plain Sight” — Detailing the Malignancy of Donald Trump

June 6, 2020
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According to Sarah Kendzior, “we have a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

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Film Review: “Shirley” — Domestic Witchcraft

June 5, 2020
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Shirley is hard to watch, hard to resist, and deeply, deliciously haunting.

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Film Review: “Tommaso” — A Portrait of the Messy Inner Life of an Artist

June 4, 2020
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Director/writer Abel Ferrrara, who often features character actors such as Christopher Walken and Harvey Keitel in his movies, has found a kindred spirit in Willem Dafoe.

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Jazz Album Review: Wolfgang Muthspiel’s Superb “Angular Blues”

June 4, 2020
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The precision and inventiveness of Angular Blues more than meets our high expectations for this terrific trio.

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Television Review: “Ramy,” Season 2 — An Egyptian-American Muslim on a Hilarious Quest

June 2, 2020
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Much of the fun of Ramy comes from its deadpan embrace of heightened absurdity.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Matthew Shipp and Whit Dickey — Unrepentant Proponents of Free Jazz

June 2, 2020
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Decades on, Matthew Shipp and Whit Dickey have grown into mature models of how to keep the faith when following an idiosyncratic muse.

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Book Review: “The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien” — Ignoring the Poetry

June 1, 2020
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This is a beautifully produced book, replete with illustrations. Full-page photos of evocative landscapes are supplemented by both maps and smaller shots detailing architectural features.

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