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Book Review: “The Conservative Sensibility” — A Plea for a Return to Normalcy

December 10, 2019
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The very people that George Will is trying to appeal to are evidently quite happy to be drunk on the power that their brutishness has created.

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Book Review: “Hedged” — How Private Equity Destroyed the Newspaper Business

January 16, 2024
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Newspapers are still our most reliable source of local journalism. Private equity, though, is squeezing the life out of newsrooms as greedy owners cash in.

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Book Review: “Coders” — Brave New World, Coded

April 15, 2019
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Coders had nothing in their intellectual toolbox that would help them understand people.

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Concert Preview: Grand Harmonie’s “Gods and Mortals”

November 4, 2016
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“Playing these standard pieces on period instruments is a little bit like reading a novel or poem in its original language.”

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Fuse Feature: Best and Worst Films of 2015

December 12, 2015
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Our demanding critics choose the best (and worst) films of the year.

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Book Review: Poetry, Prose, and Politics — Elizabeth Bishop at 100

March 3, 2011
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No new edition of Bishop’s poetry, which she created with such loving-care and sent to publishers with such restraint, not to say stinginess, could advance her current reputation. She is America’s flagship, 20th-century poet, leaving the straight men (Eliot, Frost, Stevens, and Lowell) in her wake. (Expect a Bishop backlash by 2020.) Yet many poetry…

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 26, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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March Short Fuses – Materia Critica

March 1, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief bursts of criticism.

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Music Feature: Wagner’s Ring Cycle in HD — The MET at the Mall Goes Global

October 5, 2010
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The bottom line is that Opera in HD is a huge hit all over the United States and is transforming the art form as it succeeds. Via The Met: Live in HD, New Englanders can experience parts of Wagner’s Ring Cycle without going to New York beginning on October 9 at 1 p.m. with the…

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

July 13, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, theater, visual arts, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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