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Author Interview: A Mindset at the Crossroads of the Teutonic and the Semitic — A Conversation with Writer-Translator Peter Wortsman

August 14, 2024
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A translator must meet a compelling need — to reinvent Franz Kafka’s voice in an English that resounds in the present moment.

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Fuse Film Review: Two at BJFF — “We Are Not Alone” and “In Case I Don’t Win the Golden Palm”

November 12, 2012
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It can be a long wait for the end of the world, even though it lies only a week away, to wit, from the beginning to the end of the Israeli film “We Are Not Alone.”

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Film Review: “Music. Money. Madness. Jimi Hendrix Live in Maui” — Rubber-Room Wackos

February 4, 2022
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If this film accomplishes anything, it’s to remind us of how much we lost when Jimi Hendrix died.

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Television Review: “Howard” — Homage to One of the Greatest Artists of the 20th Century

August 19, 2020
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The great lyricist behind the Disney renaissance receives a moving tribute.

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Film Review: “The Traitor” — The Enigma of Betrayal

February 8, 2020
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What makes The Traitor ultimately worth watching is its epic sweep, the deft way director Marco Bellocchio and his below-the-credits team carve out the dramatic highlights of Italy’s twenty year war with the Cosa Nostra.

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Music Preview: The Mavericks Are Coming to Town

November 27, 2016
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“People need some lightness in their lives.”

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Album Review: Queen’s “A Night at the Odeon”—Holding Nothing Back

December 3, 2015
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1975 was when they officially began their reign. A fab year for sure.

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Film Review: “Babyteeth” — To Come of Age Is Bittersweet

June 30, 2020
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Babyteeth is a lovely film, an unusually mature coming-of-age story that juggles restraint and abandon with astonishing ease.

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Jazz Commentary: Russell’s “Hustle,” The Duke of Ellington, and Me

August 9, 2020
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What exactly did the Duke’s music symbolize to Russell’s shifty characters, two upwardly mobile lowlifes more anxious to fleece the world than fall in love?

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Book Review: “Hot Maroc” — A Moroccan Walter Mitty as Internet Troll

December 8, 2021
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Hot Maroc is more of a three-ring circus than a drama, with a high-wire act at one end, tigers and elephants at the other, and scurrying clowns in the middle.

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