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Book Review: “Weather” — Despite All the Ruckus

February 17, 2020
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There’s a funny, parabolic quality to the emotional weather in Weather — amidst all the unsettling harbingers, the sensation of being in end times, there is still love.

Book Review: “Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound” — Poetry of Common Cause

February 16, 2020
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Carolynn Kingyens’s debut book of poems, Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound, reminds us of our everyday struggles.

Book Review: “Strange Hotel” — Battling the Inner Critic

February 15, 2020
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Strange Hotel focuses on a woman’s life in middle age, suspended between the hollow satisfactions of memory and anxiety about the future.

Visual Arts Review: “Painting Edo” — Lessons About Art and the Good Society

February 14, 2020
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Go feast your eyes.

Theater Review: “Manahatta” — Breaking the American Myths

February 14, 2020
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The only way forward, to go beyond American myths of innocence, is to confront the enduring crimes of the past.

Film Review: “After We Leave” — No Place Like Home

February 13, 2020
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I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.

Opera Album Review: The Most Neglected Master of Opera? Carl Maria von Weber, Early and Late

February 13, 2020
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New recordings of Peter Schmoll and His Neighbors and of Euryanthe pose an embarrassing question: why is the opera repertory so narrow?

Book Review: “In the Land of Men” — A Woman in the Boy’s Club of Glossy Magazines

February 12, 2020
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A victim Adrienne Miller is most certainly not: the self-portrait that emerges in her pages is of an accomplished, wise, wittily self-deprecating author of her own destiny.

Theater Review: “Sweat” — Icarus’s Children

February 12, 2020
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For me, Sweat hits its riveting stride in its second half, when the pressures of the strike tests the relationships of its working class characters.

Dance Review: Korea’s Bereishit Dance Company — Addressing Violence, Beautifully

February 11, 2020
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The amazing Bereishit Dance Company asks how dance fits into the physical world.

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