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Put bluntly, Mathematics for Human Flourishing is quite possibly the most profound meditation on mathematics I have read.
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In Maria Baranda’s poetry there is the constant oscillation between beauty and ugliness, elegance and terror, the empowering journey and the overwhelming nightmare.
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I don’t recall encountering a recent Baroque recording that is sung with such a fine balance of smoothness and character.
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Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in Montserrat gave birth to some great ’80s music, then succumbed to the elements.
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Russian poet Osip Mandelstam’s “ancient language” is rendered into real contemporary poetry in English that succeeds in speaking eloquently to the inner eye and ear.
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A documentary about a “crazy genius,” theater owner and film distributor Donald Rugoff, a difficult but insatiable P.T. Barnum-like impresario whose storied rise and tragic fall in the movie business has been overlooked.
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As an example of historical revisionism, The Commune proffers a valuable representation of the cultural, political, and class dynamics that animated the Women’s Liberation Movement.
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This new recording would be a great, and inexpensive, way to enter the sound world of Rossini’s mature operas.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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Dull, flat, and boring, with no discernible personality, the Olympics 2020 graphics made no impact on anyone other than, perhaps, its creator/developers and maybe a (very) few members of the host committee.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025