Review
If the fate of life on earth comes down to mother and daughter bonding over a racy passage in Anaïs Nin, then he whales should just call it a day.
Mariana Rondón’s Bad Hair is a beautifully acted film about the stultifying pressures on downtrodden lives.
Marian Schwartz’s careful translation of Anna Karenina is exquisitely mindful of the book’s complex linguistic texture.
Entertaining yet incisive, The Conquest of Plassans remains a devastatingly acute reminder that religion and politics make surprisingly compatible bedfellows.
On this show, thriving on caricature as it does, the chasm between Amy and Sheldon stops laughter long enough to suggest poignancy.
BEMF’s double bill of two short and comic Pergolesi operas made for an unusual and totally delightful presentation.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at the MFA is a delightful exhibition dedicated to vehicular speed, mobility, style, and joy.
If you want to expand your heart and mind this holiday season, you couldn’t do better than go to The Little Prince.
Charies D’Ambrosio’s short fiction collections were finalists for major awards, but it is his essays that I return to again and again.
In this fiction and plays, Thomas Bernhard creates fascinatingly repugnant monsters, black holes of egotism that are symptomatic of our spiritual and moral myopia.
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