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Film Review: Of Farms and Fate — “Eight Deadly Shots” and “Alcarràs” at the New York Film Festival

October 25, 2022
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Two films look at the hardships and realities of rural life, past and present, at the New York Film Festival.

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Food Muse: A WRAP FOR A RAJ — Scenes From The Life Of The Dosa

June 13, 2011
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In India, dosas are cooked on a griddle in the street, as well as in restaurants and homes. As street food goes, the dosa gets high marks. It’s not junk, and it tastes great. The Dosa Factory in Central Square, subtitled “Indian Street Food,” is a hole-in-the-wall–not for an evening of food and talk. But that’s not what street food is. It’s a quick fix, and for these purposes, it’s about as good as it gets.

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Book Review: “The Elixir of Immortality” — A Fabulous Ride Through European History

February 1, 2014
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Love stories, treachery, brilliant plans, history itself gone awry – it’s all here in inspiring abundance in this fabulous novel, where the Spinozas make their way through hundreds of years of European history.

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Film Review: “The Last Blockbuster” — A Nostalgia Trip to Video Heaven

March 24, 2021
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Could it be, I dream, that a resurgence in local video shops much be in the cards, like the vinyl record stores that are popping up everywhere now?

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Book Review: Marguerite Duras’ “Abahn Sabana David” — A Rush Job

June 13, 2016
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Did Marguerite Duras, who had worked in the French résistance during the war, feel guilty about not having been sufficiently concerned about the Shoah?

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Book Review: “The Feral Detective” — Strictly From Hunger

May 14, 2019
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Farcical fight and sex scenes might be forgivable, but the “mystery” is so barely there it utterly fails to engage — and that’s lethal to a novel in this genre.

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Theater Review: A Moving “let us find the words”

November 2, 2012
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Ingeborg Bachmann wanted freedom for them both. She says in her letter, “I am free and I am lost in this freedom.” Dominique Frot is a brave actress. She presents the poet’s freedom in her body and voice.

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Music Review: Boston Calling 2014 — A Weekend of Crazy Weather and the Festival’s Strongest Lineup Yet

September 12, 2014
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The fourth edition of Boston Calling boasted the music festival’s strongest lineup to date and the performances did not disappoint.

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Film Review: A Pair of “Suspirias” Square off at The Brattle Theater

March 8, 2019
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Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is a landscape of the shadowy feminine, steeped in ancient magic, willful evil, and the cyclical round-de-lay of death and rebirth.

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Fuse Book Review: A Couple of Nihilists Ready for a Piece of the Action

November 26, 2011
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Both of these novels about social corruption should be in every Occupy Wall Street library in the country: inequality is not a matter of fate but the result of an exhausted acquiescence to subterfuge.

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