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This is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.
Read More“The O’Briens” is a good sink-your-teeth-into read that explores the capricious nature of destiny with grace and humor and shows great compassion for its characters.
Read MoreSome fiction can, literally, have the smell of too much research. And so, although I admire the ambition and scope of Audrey Schulman’s new novel, “Three Weeks in December,” I also feel that she made things harder for herself than she needed to.
Read MoreIt is worth your time watching Shakespeare & Company’s two fine actresses come to an understanding that is cathartic and real.
Read MoreBreath & Imagination is a realistic, moving, and very revealing take on what it means to be a black artist in America, both then and now.
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The Lyric Stage production of Anna Christie does right by Eugene O’Neill’s brilliance.
Read MoreWhile reading Andre Maurois’ “Climates” you feel your world narrowing in uncomfortable ways.
Read MoreI can say, without equivocation, that Helen Dunmore’s novel “The Greatcoat” is no “The Turn of the Screw.”
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Music Commentary: The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute
If any of you are harboring a budding young musician, investigate the possibility of he or she attending BUTI.
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