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Book Review: Stories by Korean Women — Sad Brilliant Inventions

April 10, 2016
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What could have been excursions into monochromatic despair are elevated, through resourceful inventiveness, into exhilarating journeys.

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Visual Arts Review: Flowers as the Work Table for the Imagination

November 5, 2011
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Inescapably erotic, flowers are all about desire. What are they but a glorious exhibition and frame of their own genitals?

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Poetry Appreciation: Seamus Heaney — “You’ll know them if I can get them true”

November 30, 2013
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Throughout his writing, poet Seamus Heaney’s penetrating imagination is one that strives for accuracy.

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Classical Music Interview: Yvonne Lam of Eighth Blackbird — Stirring Virtuosos

January 29, 2018
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When it comes to helping artists make a living, social media turns out to be a mixed blessing.

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Book Review: “The Beauty of Choice” — Overwhelmed By Excess

July 24, 2024
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In this book, Wendy Steiner argues that if we don’t waste, it is very likely that we do not really want.

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Film Review: “The Unknown Known” — As Insanely Entertaining as a Mad Hatter Tea Party.

April 11, 2014
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My first thought: filming Donald Rumsfeld can only be rationalized if it’s a front for a citizen’s arrest.

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Film Review: “MLK/FBI” — A Necessary Cautionary Tale

January 17, 2021
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A powerful document about the persecution of an American icon and the government that tried to destroy him.

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Fuse Film Review: Julian Schnabel’s “Miral” — Emotion, Beauty, Power and ‘Huh’

April 5, 2011
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For a film in which politics are of such moment, “Miral” longs to be apolitical — or just sublimely fuzzy. Schnabel wanted to make something warmhearted, beautiful, and decent, something that would give you a hint of how history — roughly from Partition to the Oslo accords — looked from the Palestinian side, and he has
succeeded …

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Film Review: “Bones and All” – “I’ll Eat You Whole, I Love You So”

November 30, 2022
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With Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino solidifies his place as a filmmaking maverick able to bend genre conventions in ways that express his own painfully beautiful artistic vision.

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Music Remembrance: Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson — Making the Imagination Run

August 22, 2016
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“When you think about music it’s got to be that way. Just the thrill of being able to play another note, not to win anything or get a trophy.”

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