Review

Poetry Review: “Not Elegy, But Eros” — A Skilled New Voice

April 27, 2018
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Nausheen Eusuf’s deep affection for language and sound is omnipresent.

Concert Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Symphony Hall

April 26, 2018
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New Yorker critic Alex Ross has called the LAPO the best orchestra in the country and that appellation seems about right.

Concert Review: Evgeny Kissin and the Emerson String Quartet — Brilliant

April 26, 2018
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The thought of the Kissin/Emerson collaboration was very intriguing, and I anticipated amazing music making.

Film Review: “Three Identical Strangers” — at the IFFBoston

April 26, 2018
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What starts off as a rollicking entertainment ends with a flourish of profundity.

Film Review: “First Reformed” — A Vision of Despair, Restrained

April 26, 2018
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This time around, as both a writer and director, Paul Schrader has a found a story, and the artistic restraint, to convey his elevated vision.

Jazz CD Review: “Tramontana” — Electric, Buoyant Big Band Music

April 25, 2018
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Juan Andrés Ospina is not just an original big band writer, but a deeply satisfying one as well.

Television Review: “Wild Wild Country” — Scruffily Corporatized Love-in

April 25, 2018
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Wild Wild Country details the insane clusterfuck that results when faith, fundamentalism, and media hype intersect.

Book Review: “Bible Nation” — The Misleading Religion of Hobby Lobby

April 24, 2018
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This is an important and timely book, one that happens to be compulsively readable and that anyone even mildly interested in the intersection between religion and politics, faith and science, or religious commandment and secular law should read.

Dance Review: Alonzo King — Disembodied

April 23, 2018
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Sutra was a curious mix of reverence and virtuosity, lavish movement and intricate music — over an hour’s worth of changing forms. I found it intriguing and untrackable.

Book Review: “A Short History of Ireland” — A Concise Past

April 20, 2018
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Gibney’s volume offers a wide range of readers with an introduction to the complexities of Irish history, including questions of what exactly constitutes the national history itself.

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