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Book Review: David Grossman’s “Falling Out of Time” — It Takes A Village

April 7, 2014
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“Falling Out of Time” is a book that gives all the truth that Israeli writer David Grossman can deliver, and far more intimacy than we strangers who are his readers have earned.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: July 10 through 19 — What Will Light Your Fire

July 3, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in theater, visual arts, film, music, author events, and dance for the coming week.

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Arts Remembrance: Terrence McNally — Dramatist and Father of the Serious Contemporary Musical 

March 27, 2020
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The late Terrence McNally was more than just a masterful playwright. He also forged new roads in musical theater.

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Film Review: “Maestro” — Scenes from a Marriage

December 24, 2023
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“Maestro” is raw and unsparing but also full of understanding, grace, and honesty. This compelling drama brings to life the man and woman behind an extraordinary amount of musical activity, with many of their shortcomings and contradictions fully intact.

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Jazz CD Review: Darren Barrett’s “Time for Romance”

October 1, 2018
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Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.

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Film Festival Reviews: TIFF 2023 — Corruption and Cops

September 14, 2023
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Reviews of three films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival that draw connections between class, violence, and politics.

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Book Review: “We Were Eight Years in Power” — An Essential Book

November 11, 2017
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Nothing could be more necessary at this point in time than this book.

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Film Review: “Rodents of Unusual Size” — Scary! Creepy!

September 17, 2018
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How will PC New Englanders react to seeing nutria gunned down by hunters, and some bashed on their heads to make sure they are dead?

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Film Review: “To Sleep With Anger” — The Devil’s Temptations

March 15, 2019
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To Sleep with Anger is a masterpiece, a powerful reminder that, however seductive the devil might be, he can be overcome.

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Book Review: Stories by Korean Women — Sad Brilliant Inventions

April 10, 2016
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What could have been excursions into monochromatic despair are elevated, through resourceful inventiveness, into exhilarating journeys.

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