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Book Review: Sanford Friedman’s Utterly Original “Conversations with Beethoven”

October 2, 2014
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How well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.

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Book Review: Marilynne Robinson’s “Lila” — A Vision of Life More Damned Than Redeemed

October 2, 2014
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Lila is an ambitious book that is deeply flawed and not nearly in the same class as Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead.

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Fuse TV Review: Political Satirist John Oliver — Viewers Are Responding, not Just Watching

October 1, 2014
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Each John Oliver monologue takes a different weighty and urgent political issue and deconstructs it with wit, clarity and moral purpose.

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Film Review: 1967’s “Accident” — Romance Among Frigid, Upper-Class Brits

October 1, 2014
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Playwright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.

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Book Review: “Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death” — A New Language for Living with Auschwitz

September 30, 2014
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Otto Dov Kulka’s exploration of the time he spent in Auschwitz as a child won the 2014 Jewish Quarterly-Wingate prize, one of the judges calling it “the greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi.”

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Rock CD Review: Queen, “Live at the Rainbow ‘74” — Before They Were Massive

September 30, 2014
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The newly released Live at the Rainbow ’74 set proves that Queen had been slaying audiences since the beginning of their career.

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Concert Review: The Boomtown Rats — Still Immature and Proud of It

September 29, 2014
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This was a band that took its reunion as a personal challenge to come off as reckless as they did in their prime.

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Classical Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons — A Substantial Inaugural Outing

September 29, 2014
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At least waiting for Andris Nelsons to take over the orchestra is done. And we don’t have to bide too much time before we get to hear more from him: his first subscription series with the BSO kicks off on Wednesday.

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Visual Arts Review: A Man of His Time — Cuban Modern Master Wifredo Lam

September 28, 2014
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Though acknowledged as one of the half-dozen or so key figures in Latin American modern art, Wilfredo Lam’s status in the modernist canon is unclear.

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Book Review: “The Witch-Hunt Narrative” — An Ambitious and Disturbing Study of Injustice

September 27, 2014
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The Witch-Hunt Narrative is an extremely important book about an ongoing phenomenon that will not go away anytime soon.

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