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Book Review: “A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler” — A Hymn to Life

August 10, 2025
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As befits a prolific and distinguished poet, renowned for his visionary instincts and signature compositional technique, Nathan Kernan has produced an account of James Schuyler that is as morally serious as his subject.

Film Review: “Weapons” — No Child Left Behind

August 9, 2025
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What sets “Weapons” apart from other films utilizing a puzzle-box approach is  Zach Cregger’s command of tone, a byproduct of honing his skills in sketch comedy.

Book Review: “Ne me quitte pas” — A Guide to a Song That Crosses Borders

August 9, 2025
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This splendid book is a love letter and a dissertation, almost a song in itself.

Film Review: “Monk in Pieces” — An Education of the (Genius) Girlchild

August 9, 2025
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What it cost Meredith Monk to be uncompromising! In the early days of her experimentations, the dismissive, often patronizing reviews included lines like her music “made my cats bite each other.”

Television Review: “King of the Hill” — Nicely Rebooted

August 8, 2025
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The targets of “King of the Hill”‘s satire have changed — as Texas culture has changed — but the relationships, and who the characters are at their core, have not.

Film Review: Resistance Is Feudal in “Harvest”

August 7, 2025
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This alternately ecstatic and murky, pointed and obscure, allegory is a rare attempt to confront the pathological systems leading us to an uncertain fate.

Television Review: “Chief of War” — Remembrance of Hawaii’s Past

August 6, 2025
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Hopefully, Hollywood will take note of this impressive dramatic accomplishment, and more Indigenous stories will follow.

Book Review: “The Letters of Frank Loesser” — The Illuminating Correspondence of an American Musical Master

August 5, 2025
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The letters of this protean figure in American musical theater induced in this reader a pleasurable mixture of nostalgia, voyeurism, and insight.

Theater Review: “As You Like It” — The Comic Comforts of a Green World

August 3, 2025
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The high spirits and tolerance in this enjoyable production reinforce the director’s claim that this comedy is about expats striving for “a more balanced, egalitarian society.”

Book Review: “Owned” — How to Buy Left-Wing Journalists

August 2, 2025
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Eoin Higgins’s “Owned” is a provocative take on our shifting politics and the instrumental role the media plays in how the superrich maintain power.

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