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DocTalk: Wicked Queer Festival — Make Your Body Talk

November 14, 2025
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The word made flesh at WQ: Docs

Book Review: Canceling Equality — Julia Ioffe’s Personal and Political History of Russian Women

November 13, 2025
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This heartbreaking book documents the history of contemporary Russia through its women.

Rock Concert Preview: The Cyrkle Returns — 1960s Hitmakers Play Boston for the First Time This Millennium

November 12, 2025
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‘60s pop aficionados know there’s more to The Cyrkle than its Fab Four connections.

Poetry Review: Pennie for Your Thoughts — Social Media, Abuse, and Scottish Verse in “poyums annaw”

November 11, 2025
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This is poetry that sets its goals, finds the right language to reach them, hits hard, and recovers an ancient purpose for verse that has fallen by the wayside in recent times: consolation.

Visual Arts Review: Honoring Martin Puryear at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

November 10, 2025
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I found it remarkable to explore the exhibition, then experience a kind of filmic audience with the artist, then return, fired up and enlightened, to the beautiful installation.

Film Review: Radu Jude’s “Dracula” — Suck it to Us

November 10, 2025
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Like other Eastern European artists, Radu Jude is at his best channeling his anger through dark comedy.

Coming Attractions: November 9 Through 24 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 9, 2025
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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.

Jazz Album Review: Pepper Adams Quintet — The Baritone Voice of Hard Bop Excellence

November 9, 2025
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Baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams was clearly a generous soul, as well as a stunningly accomplished jazz musician.

Theater Review: “Kim’s Convenience” — Gentle Comedy, Missing Urgency

November 8, 2025
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“Kim’s Convenience” offers a genial comic glimpse of an immigrant family’s struggle for dignity and an economic foothold.

Film Review: “Die My Love” — A Film of Disturbing Brilliance

November 7, 2025
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“Die My Love” is a healthy bitch-slap, its shock encouraging young folks to dismiss the bullshit about relationships too many other movies have hawked over the past decade and a half or so.

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