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Poetry Review: Joanna Fuhrman’s “Data Mind” — The Algorithm That Ate America

January 25, 2025
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“Data Mind” contains a spiritual blessing — it teaches us how to praise life in a universe that is so broken it is determined to erase our humanity.

Rock Album Review: Iggy Pop at the Montreux Jazz Festival — Raw Power, Reanimated

January 24, 2025
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Bottom line: “Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2023” captures the manic, mercurial energy that transformed the man born James Osterberg into the legend that is Iggy Pop.

Classical Album Review: Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s Brilliant and Stylish “My American Story – North”

January 23, 2025
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The keyboard wizard’s latest album both continues a trend of expansive projects that take the long view and celebrates the decade-plus the virtuoso has resided in the United States. It is a blast.

Concert Review: PoemJazz — Pure Poetry, Pure Music

January 22, 2025
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“PoemJazz” is a project where music and poetry reinforce each other, where the declaimed poetry works like the sung line of a song — though Robert Pinsky never sings or pretends to.

Film Review: “Presence” — The Spectre of the Middle Class

January 22, 2025
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More than the threat posed by the ghost, “Presence” is desperately terrified of ambiguity.

Book Review: “There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas” — A Painful but Essential History Lesson

January 21, 2025
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The publication of “There Is a Deep Brooding in Arkansas” is especially welcome and necessary at this time.

Book Column: Spotlighting Masterful Literary Translations

January 20, 2025
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One of translation’s greatest powers — its ability to take a text out of one historical period, literary tradition, language, and set of conventions and transplant it into another — is a delicate procedure.

Television Review: “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma” — An Abstruse Athlete

January 19, 2025
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“Enigma” is as unlike the standard sports documentary as a Cybertruck is to a F-150.

Theater Review – Audra McDonald Dazzles as Mama Rose in a Star-Powered “Gypsy” Revival

January 17, 2025
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In a production filled with emotional intensity, Audra McDonald delivers a powerhouse portrayal that elevates a somewhat uneven staging.

Film Reviews: The Boston Festival of Films from Iran — Veiled Threats

January 17, 2025
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The power of cinema persists at the Boston Festival of Films from Iran.

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