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Theater Review: At Shakespeare & Company — Tina Packer’s Masterful “Merchant of Venice”

July 28, 2016
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Shakespeare & Company’s staging of Merchant of Venice is the strongest this critic has ever seen or could hope to.

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Jazz Appreciation: A Celebration of Charlie Parker on His 100th Birthday

August 29, 2020
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Arts Fuse jazz critics offer their favorite performances from the Bird.

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Book Interview: Christopher Ricks on “The Poems of T.S. Eliot, The Annotated Text.”

May 18, 2016
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Editors Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue are not trying to teach us how to read the poems.

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Book Interview: George Scialabba on Low Dishonest Decades — and the Dishonesty to Come

December 12, 2016
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Reading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.

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Doc Talk: Grievous Bodily Charms in “S/He Is Still Her/e: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary”

November 19, 2024
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Director David Charles Rodrigues incorporates this wealth of material, a superflux of images generated by Genesis P-Orridge and the various artistic enterprises s/he founded, with concision and insight. The life and work of his subject is chronicled over the course of a lucid and kaleidoscopic 100 minutes.

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Book Review: “Corpses, Fools and Monsters” — The History and Future of Trans Lives in Cinema

July 23, 2024
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The book’s final words offer hope for the future: “Despite the compromised nature of the trans film image of the past, there are many new horizons possible for the trans film image of the future, and that canvas, with all these images, will tell our story in cinema.”

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Jazz Album Reviews: Winners from Roy McGrath, Chembo Corniel, and Big Band Leaders Marcos Fernández and Arturo O’Farrill

October 2, 2023
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Big band leader Arturo O’Farrill points out that “Santiago Brooklyn Santiago” makes a forceful argument that the embargo between Cuba and the United States should be done away with.

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Concert Review: Santana — Wizardry on Display

August 6, 2023
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The 76-year-old Carlos Santana didn’t need to dominate with guitar showmanship to make his two-hour-plus concert fly without any lag in energy and spirit.

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Book Reviews: Chronicles of Russia’s War on Ukraine — Hope Is the Thing with Teeth

May 15, 2023
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Two powerufl volumes show that Ukraine’s greatest weapons against Russia are hope and unity.

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Album Review: “More Than a Whisper: Celebrating the Music of Nanci Griffith” — A Flawless Tribute

December 11, 2023
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Love for Nanci Griffith has empowered a hell of a record.

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