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Book Review: “Lion Hearts” — Dan Jones Brings His Essex Dogs Saga to a Stirring Close

October 14, 2025
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Novelist Dan Jones excels in re-imagining the life of common people in wartime, in particular a small group of English fighters embroiled in the so-called Hundred Years War (1337–1453) between England and France.

Film Review: “Kedi” — Caring for a City of Cats

February 28, 2017
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This endearing but unsentimental film explores the myriad connections that many Istanbul residents have to their feline neighbors.

Fuse Theater Review: Liars & Believers’ “Interference” is “Guernica” for Hipsters

February 24, 2014
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The 64,000 question is, if the artists’ concerns gravitated to the Marathon Bombings, why did “Interference”‘s press releases and the program cite Picasso’s “Guernica”?

Arts Remembrance: William Friedkin — “The Exorcist,” Influential Beyond All Reckoning

August 9, 2023
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William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” stands, 50 years on, as a primer on how to lure viewers in with striking, haunting imagery as a prelude to a previously unimaginable cinematic journey.

Visual Arts Review: Yin Yu Tang — The Architecture of Daily Life at the Peabody Essex Museum

May 18, 2019
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Yin Yu Yang is a brilliant example of architectural and cultural collaboration that allows visitors to experience and learn about Chinese art, architecture, and culture.

WATCH CLOSELY: Stephen King is My Boyfriend — Hanging out at “Castle Rock”

October 20, 2019
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If Castle Rock is intended to be a commentary on Trump’s not-so-great America, well, what better genre than horror to spread the angst?

WATCH CLOSELY: “Mare of Easttown” — Women Hold Up Half the World

July 9, 2021
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Mare of Easttown is particularly effective in interweaving troubled domestic timelines, families held together by women who are on the brink of psychic or emotional collapse.

Book Review: “Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail” — Prison Is Bad. Jail’s Worse.

February 18, 2022
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Indefinite argues that legitimate change in the way this country deals with people accused of breaking the law would have to begin with the recognition of their humanity.

Theater Review: “Macbeth” — Rousing Mayhem on the Boston Common

July 29, 2023
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This uncomplicated version of Shakespeare’s tragedy comes off as a rousing tale of murder under a starlit Boston sky that obligingly lights Macbeth’s “black and deep desires.”

May Short Fuses — Materia Critica

May 1, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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