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Poetry Review: Leonard Cohen’s “The Flame” — The Errant Canadian Comes Home

November 20, 2018
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Leonard Cohen reinforces this dedication to lyricism with striking humility in his final book.

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Film Review: “Burning” — A Powerful Philosophical Suspense Yarn

November 20, 2018
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Not since Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up and L’Aventura has there been such a mesmerizing tale of the more you look, the less you find out.

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Theater Review: Not So “ExtraOrdinary”

November 19, 2018
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This musical hodgepodge at the American Repertory Theater could be called ‘Let’s Sing About Me (and Me, and Then More About Me).’

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Concert Review: Boston Philharmonic plays Ginastera, Ravel, and Strauss

November 19, 2018
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This was a truly great performance, one that fully suited the BPO’s season-long, dual commemorations.

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Visual Arts Review: “Among Women” — Different Kinds of Strength

November 19, 2018
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The show tells a story of women through portraits that span a little more than two hundred years.

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Coming Attractions: November 18 Through December 4 — What Will Light Your Fire

November 18, 2018
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.

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Book Review: Memories of Buczacz — Jewish History from the Bottom Up

November 18, 2018
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These extraordinary books from world-class writers are about reviving, through words, a now-derelict town and the lives of its ten thousand murdered Jews.

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Classical Music Preview: Tanglewood 2019 Season Announcement

November 17, 2018
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Next summer promises to be a safe one, musically, at Tanglewood.

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Film Remembrance: William Goldman — Master Storyteller, Hollywood Legend

November 16, 2018
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William Goldman was known as a consummate Hollywood insider who nevertheless maintained a reputation as a literary-minded purveyor of exceptional cinema.

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Theater Review: “The Prisoner” — A Parable, Incomplete

November 15, 2018
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Peter Brook has decided to be more than a little stubbornly anti-theatrical in The Prisoner.

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