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Book Review: “Jane Eyre” Rewired — “The Flight of Gemma Hardy”

April 22, 2012
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Author Margo Livesey has pulled off a considerable literary trick: a page-turner that is also a moving, realistic, subtle, and eminently wise coming-of-age novel.

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Theatre Review: 1001 — Fun Until the Scimitar Falls

July 21, 2011
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Dramatist Jason Grote spins a postmodern, political variation on Scheherazade in his play 1001, and while it skimps on the imaginative playfulness of other versions, its time-tripping allusiveness has a scruffy intellectual charm.

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Film Review: “Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe” — Fragments From an Exile

December 9, 2016
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Maria Schrader has set herself a very ambitious agenda in Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe.

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Classical Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Performs Kevin Puts’s “The Brightness of Light”

November 27, 2024
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Kevin Puts’s mesmerizing song cycle probes the passion, loss, and resignation in the relationship between the artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.

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Album Review: “Is It Selfish If We Talk About Me Again” — Kacy Hill Goes Intimate

July 18, 2020
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Freed from the pressures of recording for a major label, Kacy Hill has created an album that feels surprisingly personal.

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Short Fuse Podcast #55: Talking to Author Meredith Hall about “Beneficence”

June 14, 2022
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to author Meredith Hall about her debut novel Beneficence, which deals with a family traumatized by death of a child by a gun.

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Theater Feature: Favorite Stage Productions of 2022

December 28, 2022
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Our theater critics pick some of the outstanding productions in a year haunted by COVID.

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Film Review: “Spettacolo” — A Tuscan Town “That Plays Itself”

April 2, 2018
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The landscape and architecture are beautifully photographed, but more important are the array of faces and the music of the voices.

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Jazz Album Review: “Johnny Griffin, Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1964” — A Somewhat Flawed Set

March 27, 2024
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This is a blemished set that I, a Johnny Griffin enthusiast, am glad to have.

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Fuse Concert Review: Pianist Fred Hersch and Guitarist Julian Lage — A Sublime Duo

November 23, 2013
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The set was thrilling, full of the most intelligent byplay, and consistently songful. Chamber music doesn’t get any better than this.

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