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Fuse TV Review: Political Satirist John Oliver — Viewers Are Responding, not Just Watching

October 1, 2014
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Each John Oliver monologue takes a different weighty and urgent political issue and deconstructs it with wit, clarity and moral purpose.

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Commentary: Donald Trump and the New Culture War

January 17, 2017
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Who might be chosen to receive a Kennedy Center Honor from President Trump who wouldn’t refuse it?

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Classical CD Reviews: Barenboim plays Sciarrino, Berio, Tartini, and Paganini and Alsop’s Complete Bernstein

March 14, 2018
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Violinist Michael Barenboim is an exceptional young musician with a famous name who stands on his own two feet.

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Book Review: How “The Waste Land” Was Won

December 21, 2022
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Poet and professor Jed Rasula makes the case for The Waste Land‘s lasting revolutionary impact in his engaging and insightful, if occasionally discursive, study.

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Visual Arts Review: Ian Hamilton Finlay — Revolution Without a Manifesto

July 1, 2014
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His art’s sunny, unhurried elegance, so at odds with its message, suggests that Finlay is taking a Swiftian rhetorical stance.

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Book Review: “Maybe This Time” — The Fragility of Personal Identities in Surreal Worlds

November 7, 2011
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The nine tales found in “Maybe This Time” chart the unnerving psychological transformations of its characters. Its style forces us to reconsider our ways of reading and our childlike dependency on narrative authority.

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Book Review: The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars — Protecting the Sacred Value of Time

January 12, 2020
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Alan Rosen’s book thoughtfully illuminates the perilous calendrical devotion of Jews during the Holocaust, seeing it as a form of resistance.

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Visual Arts Review: A Joyous Look at New American Sculpture, 1914 – 1945

June 21, 2017
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These are men who appreciated women for their bodies, athleticism, motherhood, intelligence, and humor – all reasons to celebrate this show.

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Visual Arts Review: A Creative Camelot — The Bauhaus and Harvard University

March 11, 2019
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This inspiring show celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Bauhaus.

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Jazz CD Review: The Gil Evans Orchestra — Hidden Treasures, Vol #1

December 18, 2018
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Quite properly, Miles Evans evokes rather than mimics his dad’s arrangements on this excellent disc.

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