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Film Review: “The Social Reckoning” — The Gospel According to Sorkin

October 8, 2026
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Mikey Madison shines as whistleblower Frances Haugen, but Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook drama preaches more than it provokes.

Film Review: “Never After Dark” Can’t Stand the Light of Day

October 7, 2026
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Dave Boyle’s atmospheric ghost story raises intriguing questions about sisterhood and the afterlife, then buries them beneath slasher-film carnage.

Children’s Book Reviews: A Harvest of Books for Fall

October 7, 2026
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These new children’s books explore different aspects of fall—starting school, understanding yourself, and Indigenous storytelling.

Opera Album Review: An Engaging and Long-Unperformed 1887 Opera by a Black American, Now on CD

October 7, 2026
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A spirited recording, led by two outstanding sopranos, makes a persuasive case for the earliest surviving opera by a Black American composer—and for its long-neglected creator.

Film Review: When Poverty Turns Surreal

October 6, 2026
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Stillz’s “Barrio Triste” transforms the dangers of life in Medellín into a haunting journey through cosmic horror, media distrust, and adolescent fear.

Book Review: Novelist Tom McCarthy’s Labyrinth of Law, Language, and Delusion

October 6, 2026
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In this novel, a brilliant European jurist, an addictive little blue pill, and an elusive conspiracy yield a dazzling but sometimes exhausting exercise in literary complexity.

Classical Album Review: Steve Reich at 90 — The Pulse Still Holds

October 5, 2026
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ECM New Series’ reissue of the composer’s seminal early recordings restores their bite, rigor, and uncommon spiritual warmth.

Book Review: The King of the Cats Returns — Seamus Heaney’s Complete Poems and the Poetry of Justice

October 5, 2026
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In a monumental new gathering of his work, the Nobel laureate’s poems—of rural labor, private grief, history, and divided Northern Ireland—remain a moral force in a newly fraught moment.

Visual Arts Review: Esther’s Many Faces at the Gardner

October 4, 2026
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An incisive exhibition traces how Rembrandt, his Dutch contemporaries, and earlier artists remade a biblical story of concealment, power, and survival.

Jazz Album Review: The Art of Vocalese — Janis Siegel’s Jazz History Lesson

October 3, 2026
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Janis Siegel’s first project since the Manhattan Transfer’s 2023 dissolution honors the lyric-driven jazz practice shaped by Eddie Jefferson and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.

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