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Many of us think of Harriet Tubman as a lone heroic figure. But the truth is she was never alone; she did things that other people did not do.
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Political attacks aside, MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing is a contemporary jewel of a building.
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This week’s poem: Kenton K. Yee’s “Bloodhound Astronomer”
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Today, Elizabeth Kolbert’s book remains an important reminder of what is at stake — nothing less than the future of life on earth.
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Three new picture books offer help for kids wanting to be perfect, giving feedback, and finding your place in the world.
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A trio of films in which certainty and security have been disrupted and people must make the best of what remains.
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James Lee Burke’s “Clete” is Beat poetry, suffused with sadness and longing for all those sunsets now gone.
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In her insightful commentaries and art, Hana Miletić demonstrates how labor and materiality reflect subtexts of power, ranging from the “soft” to the “hard.”
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The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
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Film historian Peter Cowie’s writing is always intelligent, if somewhat dry, and normally correct in its evaluations of Ingmar Bergman’s films.
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Arts Commentary & CD Reviews: On The Kennedy Center, Ben Folds, & Gustav Mahler