Review

Book Review: “The Sovereign” — Anarchy in Puerto Rico

July 11, 2017
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Given the country’s current existential crisis, this genre-bending, ambitious-to-the-max debut novel about an uprising in Puerto Rico comes at the perfect time.

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Classical CD Reviews: Alice Coote sings Mahler and Honegger’s “Le roi David”

July 10, 2017
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A wonderful new performance of Mahler’s three orchestral song cycles; Daniel Reuss’s account of the oratorio Le Roi David is basically flawless.

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Theater Review: “Mad Dash” — Fresh Ink Theatre Beats the Clock

July 10, 2017
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Fresh Ink Theatre is to be applauded for taking risks, for daring to mix it all up, for giving audiences a taste of what theater, shelter-skelter version, can be.

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Film Review: “Democracy Through the Looking Glass” — Take a Good Look

July 9, 2017
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The interviewees sound warnings about how we have self-sorted, online and in the real world, into echo-chamber communities of like-minded people.

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Book Review: “Debriefing the President” — Ignorance is Tragedy

July 8, 2017
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So now you know: Saddam’s fearsome weapon of mass destruction was a novel.

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CD Reviews: “Op. 2” and Faust/Melnikov’s Franck & Chausson

July 7, 2017
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Violinist Sebastian Bohren’s album is uneven; violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov have produced a wonder.

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Theater Review: “Constellations” — A Drama about the Music of Time

July 7, 2017
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Nick Payne’s fascinating Constellations takes the cosmic paradoxes of time head on.

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Jazz CD Review: “Compassion” — A Deft Homage to John Coltrane

July 6, 2017
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Of course, neither saxophonist sounds precisely like Coltrane: there would be no point in trying.

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Theater Review: At WTF — “The Roommate” and “The Model American”

July 4, 2017
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The Model American is a powerful reminder of how deep theatrical pockets can be used to develop deeply significant new work.

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Film Review: “The Little Hours” — What the Donkey Sees

July 3, 2017
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A romp in and around a centuries-old Italian convent, acting out a 14th-century story using contemporary American idiom and attitude.

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