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These are individual expressions of how it feels to live in a war zone, not scenes of valiant fighters intended to recruit more combatants.
Two recent film releases, both submitted by their countries for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, offer variations on no-man’s-land.
Presumably, as a policy specialist, Ann Bookman sought to turn ideals into practical reality. Conversely, here in Blood Lines, she unwinds reality to find emotional clarity.
Damn straight, English singer/songwriter Beth Orton was back in the room – after a six-year absence.
In addition to being a clever paranormal thriller, Something in the Dirt is a brilliant commentary on our burgeoning world of content creation.
I feel that I have lost a dear friend whom I met through profoundly heartfelt recordings and, in the form of interviews, inspiring self-portraits.
In his poetry, Houman Harouni has peopled a world with voices that are well worth listening to.
The advantage to listening to the recorded Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite is that on disc pianist Jason Yeager writes beautifully for septet: the textures he evokes in his arrangements are curiously varied and invariably moving.
Vince Guaraldi isn’t the heaviest of jazz pianists: he played at a time when McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans were omnipresent. But his tunes, his gently humanist approach to music, meant that he reached listeners that others couldn’t or didn’t.
Book Review: Three Splendid Volumes Filled with the Cool, the Wicked, and the Amazing
It’s hard to convey what a benison these books have been to me, as I’ve read them in my narrow, monkish bed late into the night.
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