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Film Review: “Dream Scenario” – Dream a Little Dream of Me?

November 17, 2023
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Nicolas Cage plays a man who craves renown but can only captivate an audience of sleepyheads.

Television Review: “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” — The Virtues of Redemption

October 1, 2023
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Less is more in Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”.

Concert Review: Conductor Thomas Adès Takes The Boston Symphony Orchestra To Hell and Back

March 24, 2023
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Conductor and composer Thomas Adès brought more of his intriguing music to Symphony Hall this weekend with two selections from his recent ballet, The Dante Project.

Music Feature: Mr. Airplane Man — Return Flight

December 9, 2014
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Mr. Airplane Man was beloved in the local blues world and the Abbey Lounge garage-rock circuit. They play their first local shows in nine years this week.

Book Review: “August” — A Rewarding Curiosity in the Ordinary

April 4, 2020
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August is funny in a way — over time its small scale rhythms and monosyllabic reactions generate a comforting beauty that settles in.

Poetry Review: “Little Kisses” — Poetic Affection

June 30, 2017
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Reading Little Kisses is reassuring — and that is a valuable attribute given the times we are living in.

Film Review: “A United Kingdom” — Far More than a Love Story

March 24, 2017
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A United Kingdom‘s astute reflections on racial and economic realpolitik makes this film far more than a love story.

Theater Review: “The Little Foxes” — American Greed Triumphant

March 2, 2019
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The Lyric Stage Company’s The Little Foxes is taut, tense, and eerily reflective of our own uneasy, pernicious times.

Poetry Review: Restoring the “Old Questions” — Klaus Merz’s “Out of the Dust”

June 16, 2015
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Poet Klaus Merz wields his deceptively simple diction in order to pry open hidden secrets: what we leave unsaid, what we neglect, avoid.

Book Review: “Río Muerto” — The Abiding Strength of Humanity

February 17, 2025
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Among this novel’s merits is its powerful celebration of the will to live, dovetailed with an evocation of the love members of a family have for one another, even under the most brutal and apparently hopeless circumstances.

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