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Films like Indignation bypass body counts and superheroes in order to explore the mysteries and eccentricities of human behavior.
The staging is a brash translation of Shaw’s early twentieth-century delicacy into twenty-first century Yankee sensibilities.
This year I resolved to do an unapologetic fan experience at Newport Jazz.
What made the authorities especially eager to tape Lenny Bruce’s mouth shut was his vigorous social and religious satire.
“It might sound a little kooky comparing David Bowie to poet William Butler Yeats, but they had similar pitfalls as artists.”
In her fabulous, intensely involving book, author Katie Roiphe crawls into the deathbeds of five writers who wrote brilliantly and prolifically.
Until its closing scenes, Captain Fantastic takes a complex look at the wisdom of bucking the system or joining in.
Thomas Bidegain’s film “Les Cowboys “ is political, but it is never heavy-handed.
Given the realities of music in 2016, it’s good to see a glitter-era icon who’s still alive and kicking.
Author Appreciation: The Fiction of Kent Haruf — Surviving Ordinary Life with Grace
Kent Haruf’s novels remind us that even in the hardest lives, there is joy, often delicate and evanescent, but joy, nevertheless.
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