Review
Mariana Rondón’s Bad Hair is a beautifully acted film about the stultifying pressures on downtrodden lives.
Read MoreMarian Schwartz’s careful translation of Anna Karenina is exquisitely mindful of the book’s complex linguistic texture.
Read MoreEntertaining yet incisive, The Conquest of Plassans remains a devastatingly acute reminder that religion and politics make surprisingly compatible bedfellows.
Read MoreOn this show, thriving on caricature as it does, the chasm between Amy and Sheldon stops laughter long enough to suggest poignancy.
Read MoreBEMF’s double bill of two short and comic Pergolesi operas made for an unusual and totally delightful presentation.
Read MorePlanes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA is a delightful exhibition dedicated to vehicular speed, mobility, style, and joy.
Read MoreIf you want to expand your heart and mind this holiday season, you couldn’t do better than go to The Little Prince.
Read MoreCharies D’Ambrosio’s short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.
Read MoreIn this fiction and plays, Thomas Bernhard creates fascinatingly repugnant monsters, black holes of egotism that are symptomatic of our spiritual and moral myopia.
Read MorePhilippe Rahmy is afflicted with brittle-bone disease: in his superb writing, he takes off from his incurable inherited condition and ventures out courageously.
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