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Book Review: Three New Novels Explore the Power of Trauma

March 31, 2015
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A trio of new novels suggest that bad as it gets may not be as bad as it can get.

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Film Review: “Cade: The Tortured Crossing” — The Weird Uncle Crankery of Neil Breen

November 25, 2023
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Simply put, there’s nothing (and no one) out there quite like what Neil Breen is putting out into the world, and for that alone, we should be grateful.

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Music Interview: From Bass Goddess to Singer/Songwriter — Tal Wilkenfeld

May 24, 2019
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With the release of her second solo album, Tal Wilkenfeld has become more than a bass virtuoso: she’s a sensitive songwriter, expressive singer, and capable guitarist.

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Film Review: The 2015 Montreal World Film Festival — Step By Step

September 12, 2015
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It’s always been fun, the best festival in North America to educate oneself with movies from foreign lands.

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Arts Commentary: The “Maleficent” Syndrome — Making the Villain the Hero

June 11, 2014
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Perhaps because real life is so painful, so tragic, we cannot bear to see evil in full flight. Evil must be relative, it must fly on wings of rationale, on a broomstick of retribution.

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Fuse Theater Review: A Powerful “Ulysses on Bottles”

December 4, 2012
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Despite being a staged reading with scripts still in hand, the members of the Israeli Stage ensemble were already comfortably inhabiting their roles, striking just the right balance between the tragic and comic dimensions of their characters.

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Film Review: “Priscilla” — Tender, Treacherous Youth

November 6, 2023
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The film beautifully captures a dreamy-nightmare aesthetic, suggesting that Priscilla’s life with Elvis was turbulent roller coaster of romantic highs and materialistic hollowness.

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Book Review: Getting coupled and uncoupled — Emmanuelle Pagano’s Mini-Studies of Love

November 8, 2016
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A perspicacious, multifarious, and compelling fictional field report on how we get hitched or unhitched, coupled or uncoupled.

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Poetry Review: Zagajewski 6.0

June 3, 2011
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If the verse in UNSEEN HAND refuses triumphant fictions, there is an attentive, persevering dignity in its preference for seriality. Because these recurring poems recreate our being in the world, they are powerful tools for returning to it.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Mothers & Sons” — Surveying, With Understanding, the Battles Ahead

May 16, 2015
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Mothers & Sons raises important questions about struggle, acceptance, and love, dramatizing battles that are still being waged.

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