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Theater Review: “The Inheritance” — Confronting the Unthinkable

June 3, 2022
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As National Pride Month begins, The Inheritance is a powerful way to honor and remember the impossible journey so many have taken to win the right to simply be themselves in public.

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Dance Review: The Joy of Swimming Upstream — Emily Johnson’s “Niicugni”

February 16, 2013
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Emily Johnson may be off the mainstream cultural radar, but I guarantee that is going to change, big time.

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Visual Arts Review: “Historias: Latin American Works on Paper” — An Invitation to Expand Your Horizons

September 12, 2013
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The breath of contemporary Latin American visual art, as shown in this splendid exhibition, is vast.

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Author Interview: Jan Brogan on a Revelatory Murder in Boston’s Combat Zone

February 22, 2022
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The Combat Zone is more than simply a captivating exposition of legal proceedings and adjacent matters. It is an incisive, vivid, jarring, and meticulous account of — as the subtitle says — “murder, race, and Boston’s struggle for justice.”

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Podcast Review: “Team Deakins” — For Film Geeks Only (and That’s not a Bad Thing)

May 23, 2020
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The podcast Team Deakins has quite a bit to teach us about the art and craft of cinematography.

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Book Review: “The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris” — The Mystery of Art and Love

April 8, 2020
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Marc Petitjean seamlessly moves from describing intimate scenes to discussing Frida Kahlo’s art and its significance.

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Author Interview: “The Cult of Trump” — Deprogramming the GOP

November 15, 2019
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When someone recommended to Steven Hassan he write a volume called The Cult of Trump, “it just seemed like the most important book I could write, frankly.”

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Music Interview: Rickie Lee Jones on her Memoir and Living in the Present Tense

May 11, 2021
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“Then, as now, my focus was on the songs. As long as you can keep your focus on the art that you’re doing, the larger thing it can serve – selling records or whatever – that’ll happen on its own.”

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Book Review: “Freedom” — Jonathan Franzen Unbound

August 29, 2010
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Jonathan Franzen’s new novel is the talk of the town, but does it have anything to say? Freedom: A Novel, by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 576 pages, $28. Reviewed by Tommy Wallach In two days, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux will publish Freedom, the new novel by Jonathan Franzen whose last book, The Corrections,…

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Book Review: Alexandria’s Sphinx — “Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography”

August 26, 2025
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Unable to place Cavafy in a holistic context, momentum is never sustained. Key points remain scattered, unintegrated.

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