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Book Review: In the Dutch Golden Age – When Science Becomes Profitable

November 9, 2014
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Cutting edge scholar Dániel Margócsy has penned a fascinating study about the early collisions of art, profit, and science.

Theater Review: “Crack” — A Theatrical Meditation on Love, Mental Illness, and Modernity

November 7, 2014
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Crack is too complex and nuanced to be reduced to an anti-psychiatric tract.

Movie Review: Inscrutable “Interstellar” — All You Need Is Love?

November 6, 2014
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I don’t want to give anything away. Not that I could because I really had no idea what anyone was talking about, except that what it is really all about is love.

Book Review: The Story of the ‘Hand Grenade’ — Emmanuel Carrère’s Biography of the Russian Writer Eduard Limonov

November 5, 2014
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A compelling chronicle of the life of the notorious Russian writer and political activist Eduard Limonov.

Book Interview: No Guns — No Civil Rights?

November 5, 2014
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“If you’re dead you won’t have a movement, and guns kept people alive. In particular, kept people who made the movement alive.”

Concert Review: Pianist Richard Goode’s Sublime Beethoven Sonatas

November 4, 2014
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Pianist Richard Goode provided everything that is asked of a Beethoven master: color, infinite shadings, interesting, convincing tempi, and soul.

Visual Arts Photo Gallery: Images From Illuminus — Boston’s first Nuit Blanche

November 4, 2014
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With the wild array of video, digital, performance, and public artists we have here, Illuminus is a natural event for Boston to host.

Dance Review: Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake” – A Reverent Visit into the World of Renaissance European Fairy Tale

November 4, 2014
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If you know Swan Lake, there will be few structural surprises. Girl turned into swan, prince falls in love, prince gets fooled, they both feel really terrible, and die.

Jazz Album Reviews: Two Remarkable Duets — Charlie Haden/Jim Hall, Kenny Barron/Dave Holland

November 3, 2014
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Jim Hall sounds at his best on these newly issued duets. So does Charlie Haden, whose plangent sound has rarely, if ever, been captured so well.

Book Review: “Stealing All Transmissions” — How The Clash Conquered America

November 3, 2014
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Stealing All Transmissions is slim, but nearly every page is filled with insight and originality.

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