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Critical Blast From the Past: Hack! Thump! Rustle! Ah-choo!

September 2, 2015
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Here is a random roster of playgoing pests, may Thespis strike each of them dumb.

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Book Review: Two From Andreï Makine — A Matter of Trust

September 8, 2015
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Makine may be plagiarizing himself, which is a perfectly legitimate thing for a writer to do, but scenes of spring snow and railroad stations become clichés even in talented hands.

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Film Review: “The White Tiger” — Class Warfare, Indian Style

January 21, 2021
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This is a wicked and entertaining satire on the dizzying class conflicts roiling Indian society, a neo-Marxist story of masters and servants, money and corruption — a Horatio Alger tale with a devilish twist.

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Book Review: “Into the Nightmare” — An Epic Account of the Assassination of John F Kennedy

July 29, 2013
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“Into the Nightmare” is a great book, a monumental book, and an authoritative assimilation of forty years of what everyone, off and on the record, has argued about the Kennedy assassination, plus what author Joseph McBride himself concludes.

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Film Review: “Lost Illusions” — 19th Century French Corruption Makes for Thrilling Entertainment

June 10, 2022
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Winner of seven Cesars, this mordant portrait of the corrupt Parisian press mid 19th century, along with the commodification of just about everything, speaks loudly to the internet era.

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Theater Review: The Hilarious Horror of “Little Shop of Horrors”

May 17, 2012
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This family’s twelve-year-old daughter found Little Shop of Horrors to be funny, silly, and wholly enjoyable, further cementing her desire to be onstage as much and as often as possible in the future.

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Book Review: Restraint Dampens “The Dream of the Celt”

August 6, 2012
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“The Dream of the Celt” succeeds at educating its readers about the worlds in which Sir Roger Casement lived his successive lives, but not about his successive personalities.

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Book Review: The Fiction of Norway’s Per Petterson — The Early Bonds That Bind

May 19, 2015
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I Refuse is one of those novels that only truly comes clear on a second reading, when certain initially apparently innocuous, easily passed-over sentences reverberate with revealed meaning.

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Music Commentary: The Problem of the Jazz Piano Concerto – Side A

March 7, 2012
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When the jazz composer is the soloist, which is usually the case, he or she ironically revives one of the most venerable traditions in classical music.

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Book Interview: Todd Tietchen on Jack Kerouac — Torn Between Routes and Roots.

April 20, 2015
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The hope is that general readers and scholars will realize a more rounded comprehension of Jack Kerouac.

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