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Book Interview: Library of America’s “War No More” — Why Not Give Peace a Chance?

May 30, 2016
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Library of America’s anthology War No More explores a distinctively American tradition of antimilitarism.

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Film Review: “Vinyl Nation” — A Visit to Vinyl Heaven

April 18, 2022
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“Every record can have its own unique sound, depending on who has owned it, who’s touched it, where it’s been. That’s really important to me.” This movie makes you realize that these things should be important to you, too.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Trombone Madness

July 31, 2023
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Taking both of these new releases together should satisfy the ‘bones jones of just about any jazz fan.

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Jazz Album Review: The Ultimate Peggy Lee — A Woman in Control

June 26, 2020
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Peggy Lee’s career took her far from the bifurcated sexual image expected of a canary — 40% coy seductiveness and 60% “I just want to settle down but will entertain you until the right guy comes along.”

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Literary Appreciation: “The Passion for the Thing” — An Argument for Writer Harry Crews

May 2, 2016
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The Southern-inflected melee of Harry Crews’ universe is like a Hieronymus Bosch canvas dipped in whiskey and flour and deep-fried.

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Visual Arts Interview: Artist Rosalyn Drexler at the Rose Art Museum — Reasons to be Cheerful

March 18, 2016
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The prolific and much heralded novelist, painter, and playwright has no shortage of opinions, many of which run contrary to the art-historical party line.

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Book Interview: George Scialabba on Low Dishonest Decades — and the Dishonesty to Come

December 12, 2016
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Reading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.

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Jazz Album Review: “Artemis” — Inter-generational Jazz That Expands the Tradition

September 23, 2020
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This is state-of-the art modern jazz, alternately hard swinging, contemplative, commercial, and abstract.

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Book Review: “Time’s Echo” — Listening to the Voices of the Past

December 26, 2023
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Jeremy Eichler calls on hearers to engage in “deep listening,” by which he means engaging the mind and heart not just with the music, but also with the historical, cultural, and artistic contexts that gave rise to it.

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Book Review: Roxane Gay — A Writer of Unusual Sensibility

April 4, 2017
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Roxane Gay is a bold writer of impressive range who experiments with magic realism, dystopia, and fantasy.

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