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Book Review: Lea Ypi’s “Indignity” — Reimagining a Life in the Ruins of History

November 24, 2025
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This tragic, absorbing, and moving quasi-novel is best characterized as a “tour de force”.

Classical Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Wilson, Szymanowski, and Copland

February 8, 2019
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Conducting Lumina, Andris Nelsons was entirely in his element, capably drawing out the music’s shimmering gestures — string flourishes, brass fanfares, woodwind filigrees, and the like – from a locked-in BSO.

Film Review: “Get Out” — A Different Kind of Horror Flick

April 14, 2017
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Get Out owes much to the small but precious film genre that dares to cultivate bizarre and hip satire.

Film Review: “Belfast’ — Black and White and Rosy All Over

November 16, 2021
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Belfast is overly sentimental and drenched if not drowned in nostalgia, but it’s also very sweet, uplifting, well-paced, beautifully shot, and competently assembled.

Book Review: Annotating Jane — An Illuminating New Edition of Austen’s Persuasion

February 28, 2012
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This invaluable addition to the Austen literature offers two for the price of one: a beautifully designed and printed edition of the novel many consider her best and a parallel critical commentary that deepens our understanding and opens up a rich, textured view of her world and time.

Fuse News: What NPR’s Obit of Balanchine Ballerina Maria Tallchief Missed

April 13, 2013
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Maria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.

Movie Review: “Female Helmers” — A Terrific Evening of Shorts

November 7, 2012
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Each film demonstrates a distinct female sensibility as well as a strong and unique stylistic vision.

Book Review: Rereading Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”

January 3, 2020
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It’s Walker Percy’s subversive strategy to stick us with a decided non-hero and have us gradually appreciate his non-participatory status.

Poetry Review: Askold Melnyczuk’s “The Venus of Odesa” — A Jukebox of One-Hit Wonders

September 19, 2025
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Of special interest is Askold Melnyczuk’s treatment of objects. His imagination transforms curios into uncanny artefacts.

Film Review: “Senna” — A Documentary where Raw Sport and Raw Talent Meet

August 21, 2011
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Narrative holes and esoteric tendencies aside, SENNA is remarkable for its feat of compiling what must have been hundreds if not thousands of hours of Formula One footage. The film is surprisingly cinematic and has a vintage, if not sometimes grainy, appearance.

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