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Mare of Easttown is particularly effective in interweaving troubled domestic timelines, families held together by women who are on the brink of psychic or emotional collapse.
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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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Violinist Randall Goosby’s Roots tells a singular story, one that grows and deepens on repeated listening.
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Schmigadoon! is both an enjoyable love letter to classic Broadway musicals and a good-natured spoof of their now antique conventions.
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Disco! feels like the culmination of what will be seen as an early stage in MIKE’s career –– stylistic mastery achieved, a mountain summit reached.
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Body and Soul generates a whirligig of passions — joy, frustration, pleasure, and rage.
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The author’s aim is to render William Blake’s complex vision understandable to novices. It is a lucid effort, though the book presents a disappointingly conventional overview of the artist’s achievement.
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“Figures of Speech” is a kind of aesthetic/political injection: its messages are put across by pieces that seamlessly blend a number of genres, including sculpture, music, graphics, and film.
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Americans is a winningly-programmed, strongly-realized effort.
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Author Interview: Aaron S. Lecklider on the Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture
The reader comes away from Love’s Next Meeting with an awareness of the rich history of homosexual culture existed long before the Stonewall riots in the summer of ‘69.
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