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Book Review: “The Last Tsar”– Last Train to Pskov

March 23, 2025
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Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s towering achievement is to show that, while Nicholas II was betrayed, he lost his throne because he had made it impossible for anyone who loved Russia to be loyal to him.

Film Review: “Misericordia” — Empathy Rules

March 23, 2025
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Director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film is a darkly hilarious, polymorphously perverse paean to compassion.

Film Reviews: A Dispatch from the 25th Boston Underground Film Festival (Part 1 of 2)

March 22, 2025
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Considering the current political climate and its accompanying cultural backlashes, BUFF’s (continued) commitment to diversity in film feels especially pointed in its 25th incarnation.

Album Review/Concert Preview: Adam Sherman and Robin Lane — The Start of a Beautiful Friendship?

March 22, 2025
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Here’s hoping that Adam Sherman and Robin Lane remain a creative item and continue to write and record new material. Both are in late-career resurgences and have devoted fans that fill the smaller clubs they typically perform in to the brim.

Book Review: “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Diagnosing the Illness of War

March 22, 2025
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Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of an ordinary soldier’s life in the trenches of WWI remains shocking and shattering today.

Classical Albums Reviews: Seong-Jin Cho and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Play Ravel

March 21, 2025
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A pair of pleasant traversals of the French master’s complete piano music, or thereabout, from the still-relative-newcomer Seong-Jin Cho and the established Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

Classical Album Reviews: James Ehnes performs Lalo, Saint-Saëns, & Sarasate and Benjamin Schmid plays Gulda & Weill

March 20, 2025
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Violinist James Ehnes and the BBC Philharmonic supply some truly great performances; violinist Benjamin Schmid revels in composer Friedrich Gulda’s freewheeling sense of play.

Theater Review: “The Inspector” Makes a Wildly Amusing Call

March 19, 2025
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The Russian dramatist’s expansive application of ridicule, his picture of human society as an endless chain of fools fooling fools fooling fools, couldn’t be more fitting — it is a funhouse mirror of our times.

Children’s Book Reviews: Accepting and Appreciating Others

March 19, 2025
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Two picture books explore issues of gender, self-identity, and gender stereotypes for a young audience.

Television Review: “The Righteous Gemstones” — Still Misbehavin’

March 19, 2025
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The fourth and final season of Danny McBride’s demented comedy comes to a satisfying conclusion.

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