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Sarah Ruhl attempts, but fails, to discover illuminating similarities between the powerful then and now.
Read MoreThe return to the standard repertoire, which, since January, has been the orchestra’s primary focus, is safe, unassuming, and (potentially, at least) creatively stifling.
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What we have here is the voice of one trying to navigate, endure, rise above, and somehow pacify a tapestry of cruelty and grief, while it struggles to find the words and voice that will do the work.
Read MoreI liked the movie. How not? I’m of the generation that saw the originals, back when the Force was younger.
Read MoreFor the reader who is not already a William Carlos Williams enthusiast, the biography provides a good corrective to the Norton Anthology picture of Williams as the poet of tiny images, of plums and red wheelbarrows and fire engines with big gold letters.
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Elvis Costello loves to visit various regions of the past but wouldn’t dare move to any of them permanently.
Read MoreBoston Ballet’s staging of James Kudelka’s version of “Cinderella” is not just another exercise in transforming a sad drudge into an airbrushed tootsie.
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The Lodge suggests that our money, social privilege, and carefully-crafted stability are not enough to keep the wolves from the door, or to protect us from the dangers that lurk indoors.
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Cultural Commentary: “The New Yorker” and The Fat Cats — Teaming Up
Yes, The New Yorker cover pillories the superrich as they ignore the pixie proletariat at their feet. But so what?
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