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Visual Arts Review: The Art of Celia Paul — The Power of Quiet

April 10, 2018
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Celia Paul’s paintings are calm, reflective, and inviting.

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Book Review: A Puzzling Look at the West, Islam, and The Convert

May 21, 2011
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If you are going to write about this very charged subject, the West and Islam, why would you choose as a representative of that great and ancient culture a woman who is stunted emotionally, clearly unreliable, and probably mentally unstable?

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Book Commentary: “Pandemic!” by Slavoj Žižek — Choosing Reality and Survival Over Panic and Barbarism

May 27, 2020
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“In a crisis we are all Socialists,” goes an old adage. But can that instinct be trusted in an increasingly barbaric world?

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Book Review: “The Regrets” — Love Affair With the Semi-Dead

September 20, 2021
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Is Amy Bonnaffons saying that heterosexual love is doomed? Probably not. But she gives no indication it can work in the world she creates here.

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Book Review: “Uninhabitable Earth” — Incentivizing Survival

May 22, 2019
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We will find out how much the future of the earth matters in the next Presidential election.

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Film Review: “Cold Water” — An Early Masterpiece from Olivier Assayas

August 4, 2018
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A prescient work that introduces themes and imagery (particularly youth, nostalgia and urban angst) that have become central to Olivier Assayas’ oeuvre.

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Book Review: Artist Mark Rothko — The Painter as Guru

May 31, 2015
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Biographer Annie Cohen-Solal is perhaps strongest on one thread of Mark Rothko’s narrative: his experience as a Jewish immigrant.

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Fuse Film Review: Boston Jewish Film Festival — Update

November 8, 2011
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More pithy reviews of Boston Jewish Film Festival fare, including some reflections on entries in the Short Films Competition.

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Book Review: The Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert — Mr Cogito’s Insomnia

June 25, 2025
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How should artists live under autocracy? A Cold War Polish poet doesn’t have good answers, but offers chilling advice.

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Jazz CD Reviews: Laszlo Gardony: “Serious Play”; Tim Ray: “Windows”; Yoko Miwa: “Pathways”

July 23, 2017
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These three area pianists offer up a mini-festival of satisfying keyboard music.

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