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Oh He Dead’s new album carries a unified punch as it interweaves meditations on dark subjects: mortality, polarization, and how life isn’t always sunshine and rainbows.
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“Hard to Watch” lays out a pragmatic path — directions for how to preserve your time and attention — that will help just about anybody engage with any kind of art thoughtfully and purposefully.
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The recording proves to be both an excellent example of Andrew Hill’s unusual creative methods, particularly the wonderful results he managed to get with ensembles.
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Bruna Dantas Lobato’s sensibility is unmistakably original: she explores her protagonist’s life and surroundings like a dowsing rod, poking into closets, corners, and cupboards.
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There are valuable lessons here, but I are afraid that this docuseries will be overlooked among all the more enticing, and sensationalized, witchy watchings.
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Each of these four works has its own flavor, and lovers of Baroque and Classic-era music will happily scoop up one or more of the recordings.
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The script is an experiment, a (sometimes) witty lecture on language. But it doesn’t work dramatically.
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It’s Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Roy Cohn that hangs in this not-very-good movie like a Rembrandt on the cracked plaster of a La Quinta suite by the airport.
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Book Review: “The Miró Worm and the Mysteries of Writing’ — Pursuing Creative Inwardness
The ascendancy of digital life is acknowledged as unshakable, but in these essays Sven Birkerts offers useful insights into how serious writers can carry on.
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