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Book Review: Admiring Anne Enright’s “The Green Road”

July 13, 2015
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Anne Enright’s prose, especially when she is firmly rooted in Ireland, sings; she has the ability to get the details both of setting and character, and a wonderful ear.

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Book Review: Raising the Black Flag

August 26, 2013
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There’s still an opening for someone to come along and write the final, definitive word on Black Flag. In the meantime, Spray Paint the Walls is a more than worthy placeholder, and is highly recommended. It’s just not quite what it could have been.

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Book Review: “As It Turns Out” — Not Enough About Edie and Andy

August 16, 2022
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Alice Sedgwick Wohl has a disturbing tendency throughout the book to back away from her points even as she makes them, as if afraid she will find herself trapped in some politically incorrect cul de sac or just a bad neighborhood.

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Theater Review: Tennessee Williams Inspires “Desire”

May 9, 2017
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The source material  — and the skills of Tennessee Williams’ posthumous collaborators — provides an evening of compelling theater.

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Television Review: “Jane Fonda in Five Acts”

November 15, 2018
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The more we hear Jane Fonda’s homilies about needing to be “whole” and “self-actualize” the more her personal journey sounds more like a succession of carefully calculated branding exercises.

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Visual Arts Review: At the Shelburne Museum — Homegrown Moderns

July 19, 2015
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The show is unabashedly American in subject matter and form: Realism is as much an influence as Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and the other European –isms.

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Visual Arts: The Art of Thomas Hart Benton — Patriotic Correctness

June 22, 2015
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Benton’s art looks very much of its time, especially this selection of work that relates to cinema. Don’t let that fool you.

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Film Reviews: The Boston Festival of Films from Iran — Veiled Threats

January 17, 2025
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The power of cinema persists at the Boston Festival of Films from Iran.

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Book Review: “Doc Watson: A Life in Music” — An Inspiring Story

April 3, 2025
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Check out the book to absorb the trajectory of Doc Watson’s career from impoverished guitar player to becoming an icon of Americana, and a repeat winner of  Grammy Awards. 

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Film Reviews: 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films — Documentary 

February 23, 2023
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A critical look at 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Documentary showcase..

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