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Theater Reviews: Two Shows on Broadway Attempt to Capture the Dark — “The Lost Boys” and “The Rocky Horror Show”

May 13, 2026
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Two beloved cult properties arrive on Broadway with formidable casts and decades of devotion behind them – but conjuring darkness turns out to be harder than it looks.

Book Review: Stop Romanticizing the Starving Artist

May 13, 2026
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“Making Art and Making a Living” assembles colorful tales of ingenuity while skirting the economic inequities that make them necessary.

Film Review: In “Amrum,” Innocence Meets Fascist Ideology

May 12, 2026
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Fatih Akin’s “Amrum” traces a boy’s quiet moral awakening as Nazi Germany falls, blending lyrical imagery with unsettling historical clarity

Musician Interview: The Joy Formidable — Rekindled

May 12, 2026
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Rhiannon “Ritzy” Bryan on solo detours, storytelling onstage, and reigniting the band’s spark ahead of a Boston return.

Book Review: In “Sad Tiger,” Truth Cuts Deeper Than Memoir

May 12, 2026
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Neige Sinno’s “Sad Tiger” turns a devastating childhood experience into a fearless, searching work of moral and psychological clarity.

Book Review: Literature vs. McCarthyism — A Battle Marjorie Garber Only Thinks She’s Winning

May 11, 2026
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Marjorie Garber’s case for poetry as resistance proves more fanciful than persuasive.

Book Review: Literary Critic Harold Bloom — The Man Who Read Too Much?

May 11, 2026
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A new collection of Harold Bloom’s letters reveals a critic who found the heights of Western literature far more inviting than the “drab” reality of a Vermont forest.

Poetry Review: Adrian Matejka’s “Be Easy” — Identity, History, and the “Alpha Poet”

May 11, 2026
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Poet Adrian Matejka distills identity, anti-racist critique, political commentary, and literary history into rapid left-right-left punches, each landing hard.

Coming Attractions: May 10 Through 25 — What Will Light Your Fire

May 10, 2026
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, television, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Concert Review: Controlled Chaos — The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis Ignite City Winery

May 9, 2026
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With chemistry forged on tour, the group fuses jazz, punk, and prog into a fluid live assault.

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