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Book Review: “My Stupid Intentions” — The Heartbreaking Bildungsroman of a Beech Marten

June 13, 2023
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The fox knows many things in My Stupid Intentions. The beech marten just one.

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Film Review: “Mustang” — Passion, Caged

January 6, 2016
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Despite being entrapped in a controlling social order, the sisters behave as most adolescents do: sometimes impulsively.

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Book Review: The Wonderful and Silly Adventures of “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared”

December 8, 2012
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Touted in author Jonas Jonasson’s native Sweden as the perfect antidote to the grim noir Swedish trilogy that begins with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo this delicious book has sold over 3 million copies around the world.

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Arts Feature: Water Music – Rockport Music’s Shalin Liu Performance Center

October 11, 2012
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For performers and audience members alike the Shalin Liu setting is as much a part of the experience as the music. It has quickly transformed the intimate hall into a destination location for a growing number of admiring artists.

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Author Remembrance: Writer Pete Hamill — Sane, Liberal, and Literate

August 7, 2020
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The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it’s not journalism.

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Fuse News: “Iris” — The Indelible Style of Iris Apfel

May 31, 2015
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Iris Apfel a witty New York fashion icon, now in her nineties, is living her career to the fullest.

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Theater Review: “Faithful Cheaters” — Delightfully Frenzied Farce

May 1, 2017
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This thoroughly cockamamy world offers the kind of guilty pleasure that you hope never ends.

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Book Commentary: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Jonathan Lethem’s Influences

December 16, 2011
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For all of his claims to being a subversive termite, Jonathan Lethem the puffy white elephant appears more often in this collection, trudging down a much safer, much happier road — leave the negativity to the snotty aristocrats.

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Film Review: “The Matrix Resurrections” – A Glitch in the Reboot

January 6, 2022
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Director Lana Wachowski seems less interested in telling a coherent story with fleshed out characters than she is in aggressively commenting on how we’re trapped in a cycle of reboots and remakes with no end in sight.

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Book Review: Can the iPad Save the Short Story?

July 13, 2011
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Two inviting collections of short short stories in translation — Catalan writer Quim Monzó sees fiction as an exhilarating if ingenious prison, Israeli writer Alex Epstein pens dreamy micro-yarns that free the imagination.

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