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Film Review: “Retrograde” — America’s Tragic Withdrawal from Afghanistan

November 17, 2022
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Now, more than a year after Kabul fell, Afghanistan, where a conflict media-branded as “America’s longest war” waged for twenty years, barely makes the news.

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Classical Music News: Jonathan Cohen Tapped to Lead the Handel and Haydn Society

November 17, 2022
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“What I love about H&H is they are hugely passionate. You feel their love and joy for this music. And they have such a willingness to want to go deeper, to rehearse.”

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Poetry Review: “Burning at the Same Time” — José-Flore Tappy’s Mysterious Poem-Portraits

November 17, 2022
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Deeply indebted to her relationship to persons and places, José-Flore Tappy uses poetry as a way to revisit them, honoring the absent through poems co-created by memory and imagination.

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Children’s Book Review: “Discovering” Thanksgiving

November 17, 2022
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Many Thanksgiving myths are dispelled, but the effort to reverse decades of misinformation leads to oversimplification at times.

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Television Review: “The Sex Lives of College Girls,” Season Two — No Sophomore Slump

November 16, 2022
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Much of the charm of The Sex Lives of College Girls comes from how messy the girls are.

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Book Review: “A Fan’s Life” — A Species of Madness?

November 16, 2022
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In A Fan’s Life, Paul Campos makes a valiant stab at reconciling his avowedly progressive views on American politics and iconoclastic intellectual pursuits with his lifelong obsession with spectator sports.

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Concert Review: Cappella Clausura’s Renaissance Portraits — Passion, Desire, and Adoration

November 15, 2022
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Thoughtful and intriguing, the concert reminded listeners that a lot of great music has been marginalized and all but lost to history.

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Book Review: “The Idea of Prison Abolition” — An Unconvincing Case

November 15, 2022
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The Idea of Prison Abolition is a worthwhile book, but Dr. Shelby’s case, philosophically strong as it might be, is not very likely to convince prison abolitionists.

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WATCH CLOSELY: “The Midnight Club” — Late Nights

November 14, 2022
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The Midnight Club contains all the ingredients necessary for a perfect spooky season binge: a Gothic mansion, extremely disaffected yet self-aware young people, moody cinematography, and gorgeous interiors, including the coolest library you’ve ever seen.

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Book Review: “Suzuki — The Man and his Dream to Teach the Children of the World”

November 14, 2022
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Eri Hotta’s biography of Shinichi Suzuki is about optimism, gentleness, doggedness, belief in children, humanity, and the affirmative properties of art in the face of violence and ignorance.

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