Review

Book Review: “Summer Cannibals” — A Patient Psychological Portrait of a Toxic Family

September 3, 2018
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Summer Cannibals’ main virtue is its keen transmission of psychological warfare in families.

Film/Jazz Review: “Open Land: Meeting John Abercrombie”

September 3, 2018
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This fascinating documentary should be compelling to guitarists and to jazz fans in general.

Jazz LP Review: Newvelle Records — Sounds Sweet and Clear

September 2, 2018
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Newvelle Records’ taste seems to be  flawless.

Film Review: “The Bookshop” — A Closed Book

September 1, 2018
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Reading is treated as a commodity, namedropping literary titles as a way for middlebrow film audiences to feel proud of themselves for being in the know.

Book Review: “The Chapo Guide to Revolution” — Laughing at Catastrophe

August 31, 2018
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Too many cultural critics look at our past through a fuzzy filter of sentiment. Chapo Trap House tackles America’s past and present idiocies head-on in a refreshingly honest way.

Jazz CD Review: Steve Turre — “The Very Thought of You”

August 30, 2018
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The venerable trombonist’s fine new album mostly contains ballads and features an all-star rhythm section.

Theater Review: “Sexy Laundry” — Cycling Through

August 30, 2018
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Sexy Laundry airs the linen of a twenty-five-year marriage from which the colors seem to have faded, and the whites yellowed.

Book Review: “Interior” — The Thing-as-Himself

August 29, 2018
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Thomas Clerc’s novel reminds us of a stubborn truth: we are all narcissists that live to accumulate shit in rooms.

Concert Review: Tanglewood’s Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration Gala

August 28, 2018
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Nearly three decades after he left us, Bernstein’s music seems to be in good hands and anything but forgotten. And his larger musical influence strongly endures.

Rock Concert Review: The Satisfactions of a Wall of Sound

August 28, 2018
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This smaller setting allowed for more casual ease and intimacy between the audience and the band.

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