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Book Review: “The Woman Who Lost Her Soul” — A Lengthy Tale of Innocence Betrayed

October 21, 2013
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Despite his weakness for overwriting, Bob Shacochis has a good and sad story to tell, and he gets through it with a degree of mastery.

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Movie Review: “12 Years a Slave” — The First Masterpiece of the New Black Cinema?

October 20, 2013
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With 12 YEARS A SLAVE, Steve McQueen, the brilliant British director of HUNGER and SHAME, has probably created the first masterpiece of the new black cinema.

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Theater Review: Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Romeo & Juliet — Just the Tragic Story

October 17, 2013
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Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production is a fine start to the company’s tenth aniversary season and an impressive realization of its founding mission statement — for this company, story and the actor’s craft trump directorial conceits.

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Classical CD Reviews: Kevin Puts — Choral Music, Symphony no. 4 and Hanns Eisler — Songs (Harmonia Mundi)

October 17, 2013
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New discs from Harmonia Mundi: One explores the music of Pulitzer prize-winner Kevin Puts, the other focuses on the songs of Hanns Eisler, and it is one of the most fascinating albums to come from any label so far this year.

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Film Review: “I Used to be Darker” — A Delicate, Compassionate Story

October 17, 2013
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I Used to Be Darker is a movie of small pleasures, lots of them.

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Fuse Gallery: BeanTown Scenes

October 16, 2013
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As the festival season draws to a close, a look back at the 2013 BeanTown Jazz Festival.

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Book Review: “The Old Priest” — Exquisite Stories About Being Human

October 15, 2013
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This small but important book is a collection of stories about being human. It explores, even probes, the inner recesses of its characters without pretense or flamboyance.

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Book Review: Two Volumes of Swiss Horror for Halloween

October 14, 2013
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Interestingly, both of these powerful visions of horror root their avenging vision of mayhem in the brutal mistreatment of children.

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Classical Album Review: Martin Schlumpf’s “Streams”

October 14, 2013
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A new disc of music by Martin Schlumpf, one of the leading figures in Swiss contemporary music whose career focuses on “the borderlands between improvisation and composition.”

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Concert Review: Thomas Adés Conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra

October 13, 2013
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra lacks a composer-in-residence. There are many local composers the orchestra might draw on were it to establish such a position, but few have the international reputation of someone like Thomas Adés.

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