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Poetry Review: “Foxglovewise” — Contending With Presence and Absence

January 31, 2025
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The healing powers of poetry is a sieve through which Ange Mlinko pours bitterness and disunity, cosmic and personal.

Visual Arts Review: Joana Choumali — No End of Stuff

January 30, 2025
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This show is proof of the Harvard Art Museums’ commitment to display relevant work by living artists who are grappling with critical issues posed by our contemporary world.

Concert Review: The Many Charms of Pianist Bill Charlap

January 28, 2025
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Put Bill Charlap in that camp of brilliant jazz originals who have plied their trade by playing songs by other people and making them definitively their own.

Classical Album Review: Music by Edward MacDowell

January 25, 2025
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Volume 1 in a new series from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and John Wilson whets the appetite for more music by the late-19th-century American composer Edward MacDowell.

Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group’s “The Look of Love” — Always Something There to Remind Me

January 25, 2025
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There’s something gleefully retro about his hour-plus-long jukebox.

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.

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