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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.
A trio of films in which certainty and security have been disrupted and people must make the best of what remains.
James Lee Burke’s “Clete” is Beat poetry, suffused with sadness and longing for all those sunsets now gone.
In her insightful commentaries and art, Hana Miletić demonstrates how labor and materiality reflect subtexts of power, ranging from the “soft” to the “hard.”
The Lyric Stage Company’s production of David Henry Hwang’s Obie award-winning play is serviceably absorbing.
Film historian Peter Cowie’s writing is always intelligent, if somewhat dry, and normally correct in its evaluations of Ingmar Bergman’s films.
This week’s poem: Anthony Robinson’s “A Short History of Belles-Lettres”
Despite its undeniable fun, Christopher Durang’s play feels somewhat quaint a decade or so since it was written.
Director Takashi Miike’s latest is a killjoy of a film: it doesn’t want to have fun with its material, but it’s impossible to take it seriously.
The excellent ensemble of Huntington Theatre Company actors, fittingly, work well as a team.
Classical Music Commentary: What’s Next for the Boston Symphony? — Lessons from the Past