Review

Visual Arts Review: “Among Women” — Different Kinds of Strength

November 19, 2018
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The show tells a story of women through portraits that span a little more than two hundred years.

Book Review: Memories of Buczacz — Jewish History from the Bottom Up

November 18, 2018
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These extraordinary books from world-class writers are about reviving, through words, a now-derelict town and the lives of its ten thousand murdered Jews.

Theater Review: “The Prisoner” — A Parable, Incomplete

November 15, 2018
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Peter Brook has decided to be more than a little stubbornly anti-theatrical in The Prisoner.

Dance Review: Dance Heginbotham — Music Makes It

November 15, 2018
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John Heginbotham may be making modern dance but he gives us the gift of classicism: discovery within form.

Television Review: “Jane Fonda in Five Acts”

November 15, 2018
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The more we hear Jane Fonda’s homilies about needing to be “whole” and “self-actualize” the more her personal journey sounds more like a succession of carefully calculated branding exercises.

Opera CD Review: A Magnificent 1841 French Grand Opera Comes Alive Again

November 14, 2018
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Yes, the first-ever recording of a opera that is as wonderful as Berlioz and Wagner said it is.

Folk CD Review: Lonnie Holley’s “MITH” — An Act of Restoration

November 13, 2018
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Lonnie Holley’s music on MITH  sounds like a choir of better angels whose multi-layered voice is hard on the outside and soft on the inside, like so much Alabama clay.

Book Review/Interview: Talking “Upstate” With Critic James Wood

November 13, 2018
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“I like implication very much; there’s a fiction of implication that I think I’ve championed over the fiction of explication.”

Jazz CD Review: Welcome Christian McBride’s “New Jawn”

November 13, 2018
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One of the distinguishing characteristics of this set is the smart, energetic, and ever-changing, relationship between bass and drums.

Book Review: Napoleon — Savior or Hitler?

November 12, 2018
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British historian Adam Zamoyski has drawn a portrait of Napoleon that is neither flattering nor diminishing.

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