Review
Play The Way You Feel is the best volume around on the uneasy relationship between film and jazz.
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The songs by Milton Nascimento and Chico Buarque re-imagined on Rio Minas are not necessarily their best known, but all of the performances on this album eloquently testify to saxophonist Jean-Pierre Zanella’s love of Brazil and its people.
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What do graphic novels about architecture bring to our understanding of the urban experience? They suggest that buildings can be like our memories — they hide as much as they show.
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Deerskin is a mordantly funny commentary on the fragility of identity, livelihood, and masculinity.
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Never Have I Ever suffers from an identity crisis: the show doesn’t want to face that it is just another Netflix teen comedy, albeit with its share of engaging moments.
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Like Nina Antonia and Robert Clark, Mark Doty deftly interweaves personal narrative with his literary concerns.
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Few contemporary authors much care to tussle with the proverbial mot juste; Lance Olsen insists on it, and over the course of fifteen novels, five books of nonfiction, and five short story collections, has shown himself a master of prose style.
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An admiration for certain defeat permeates much of The Mountain Goats’ album Songs for Pierre Chuvin.
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Nate Patrin’s magnificently written and wildly informative new book argues for the artistry of sampling, its potential for beauty.
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The cumulative message of these heavy metal bands might be: “I see your pandemic, and I raise you one.”
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