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Concert Reviews: Chamber Ensembles at Rockport Trace Music’s Shadow and Light

July 21, 2026
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A pair of concerts at the Shalin Liu Performance Center paired elegy, bite, and virtuosity in vividly different ensemble settings.

Visual Arts Review: Paul Klee’s Lines of Resistance at the Jewish Museum

July 21, 2026
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A rare, must-see gathering of Paul Klee’s satirical and prophetic drawings reveals how his angels, dictators, and “degenerate” visions saw Nazi Germany all too clearly.

Book Review: A Soundtrack for a Warming World?

July 20, 2026
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“Recomposed” finds music poised between imaginative possibility and the entrenched economics driving environmental harm.

Rock Concert Review: The Guess Who — A Worthy Trip Down Memory Lane, with Caveats

July 20, 2026
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The Guess Who and Don Felder bring skill and spirit to Boston, though nostalgia comes packaged with more than a few modern annoyances.

Book Review: Chronicling a Life of Devotion and Disquiet

July 19, 2026
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Michael Klein’s new collection weaves brushes with artistic giants into candid meditations on addiction, desire, and survival.

Concert Review: At 85, Bob Dylan Still Defies Expectation

July 18, 2026
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A reconfigured band and evolving arrangements made Bob Dylan’s Boston set vital, strange, and rooted in “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”

At the DC/DOX Film Festival: Paradise Crowded, Justice Delayed, Borders Wired

July 17, 2026
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DC/DOX spotlights documentaries that confront the human cost of tourism, policing, and surveillance—alongside bold experiments in nonfiction form.

Children’s Book Reviews: Creatures Real and Imaginary

July 17, 2026
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Big questions, wild beasts, and one very independent pet

Book Review: “The Trust Spiral” — A Provocative but Flawed Overview of What’s Wrong with the Media

July 16, 2026
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Walter Lippmann defined objectivity as the fair-minded pursuit of the truth, but all too often it has degenerated into false equivalence. Tara Henley tries to have it both ways.

Film Review: “The Odyssey” — Twilight of the Gods

July 15, 2026
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Director Christopher Nolan’s ambitious and challenging epic is an ode to the end of civilization.

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