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A pair of documentaries about the most popular guitar-driven instrumental bands of all time.
I’m going to try out a new format in 2023. Along with posting longer reviews of single series, I will also be experimenting with a new (weekly!) format where I include several features in one column.
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
One of Unknown Soldier’s powerful choices is that its central characters are not your standard young lovers.
By Harvey Blume In an interview I did with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in 1997 (for the now defunct “Boston Book Review”), we talked, naturally enough, about the issue of race in America, and about Gates’s sense of mission, as scholar and writer, in relationship to it. One thing in particular that he said sheds…
After having diagnosed the ails of modernity, screamed out his most deeply held traumas, and shrugged off his role in the biggest band ever, John Lennon is content to have a riverside cuddle under a tree in the sun with the woman he loves. Amen.
Over the last 15 years, HarborArts has effectively used public art to raise public awareness, stimulating dialogue about environmental concerns — the climate crisis and degradation of the sea.
If the first episode is any indication, season two of FX’s Fargo is going to be an almost pitch-perfect sophomore effort.
Jumbo is one of the most magically affecting and visually enthralling romances I’ve seen in quite some time
Poetry Review: Writer Alain Mabanckou — Taking Life Both to Heart and in Stride
Take a dive into any of Alain Mabanckou’s works in English — and definitely score a copy of the new translation, As Long As Trees Take Root In the Earth, beautifully crafted and bound. Vive la Poesie!
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