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There’s no question the Beatles come out of John Higgs’ superb book Love and Let Die looking far better than James Bond. Love tends to play better than death and it’s easier to root for working class underdogs than Establishment snobs.
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In The Humans, Stephen Karam suggests that America can be a heaven that, in a moment, might flip into hell.
Read MoreElizabeth Harrower’s In Certain Circles is a stunning novel about class and marriage and power; Can Xue’s The Last Lover is a tedious surrealistic farce.
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Hearing the novel’s poignant voices, we can’t help but think that in many respects the plight of poor young men in the ’hood is everywhere alike.
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Living Colour gives us fair and balanced for those who fear becoming unbalanced.
Read MoreTheodore 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.
Read More1975 was when they officially began their reign. A fab year for sure.
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The ostensible theme of the exhibit “The Last Gesture” might be best regarded, then disregarded, as critic Charlie Finch’s attempt to channel his roiling cognitive slurry. The work itself doesn’t need it.
Read MoreThe Rocket is an absorbing, visually stunning film with a backstory not quickly forgotten.
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Arts Commentary: Who’s Afraid Of James Baldwin?
So what we have is a failure of nerve — a reluctance to make students grapple with the considerable demands of James Baldwin’s prose and sensibility.
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