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Author Interview: Linda Hirshman on the Battle Against Human Bondage

February 19, 2022
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“I always wanted to write about abolition, because abolition is the most successful social movement in American history.”

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Book Review: “Harvard Square: A Love Story” — Passion Collides with the Logic of the Market

April 11, 2023
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We are understandably upset when market forces threaten the things we consider to be sacred.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Nice Fish” — An Amusingly Big Catch

January 29, 2016
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Nice Fish serves up a deliciously droll brand of American existentialism.

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Book Review: Know When to Fold ’em — Colson Whitehead Explores “The Noble Hustle”

July 24, 2014
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The Noble Hustle gives talented novelist Colson Whitehead an opportunity to spelunk in some of the gnarlier corners of the American dream, in this case the Tropicana in Atlantic City.

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WATCH CLOSELY: The End of the F***ing World — Coming-of-Age Nihilism

February 6, 2018
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The show is tightly put together, brilliantly balancing black humor with just the right amount of dramatic pathos.

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Musician Interview: Talking with Eliane Elias — A Brazilian Jazz Legend

May 27, 2025
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The performance at Groton Hill Music Center will “be a journey through Brazil. They will hear some classics, some great Brazilian love songs, and hear stories about the songs. I will dedicate some of the show to the bossa nova.”

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Visual Arts Review: Joana Choumali — No End of Stuff

January 30, 2025
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This show is proof of the Harvard Art Museums’ commitment to display relevant work by living artists who are grappling with critical issues posed by our contemporary world.

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Book Commentary: Dreiser’s “The Titan” Turns 100 — America’s “Downton Abbey”

December 31, 2014
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Theodore Dreiser’s The Titan is not the greatest novel about American business, but it is still among the best, an honorable runner-up that turned 100 this year.

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Film Review: Report from the 2019 Provincetown Film Festival

June 18, 2019
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The P-Town Fest was the site of several first-rate documentaries.

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Theater Review: “Steel Magnolias” — Female Bonding

July 24, 2019
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Over thirty years after it premiered, the script remains touching and funny, with the added merit that it provides a refreshing respite from the sour discourse of 2019.

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