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Book Review: The Overthrow of Pessimism — Sherman Alexie’s Song of Redemption

October 3, 2012
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Grappling with one’s identity — complicated by the relationships between tradition and modernism, cultural history and the process of assimilation — is central to most of Sherman Alexie’s stories, and his exploration of these complexities is compelling and illuminating.

Visual Arts Review: “Fashioned by Sargent” — Round One

November 6, 2023
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Is the artist’s direction of clothing choices — and how he painted the garments — a sufficiently compelling inquiry in which to anchor an exhibit?

Visual Arts Review: “Goya: Order and Disorder” — A Mountain of Superlatives

October 13, 2014
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Goya: Order and Disorder is likely the most important exhibition on the New England museum calendar for the coming year and then some.

Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

June 6, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!

Fuse News: Arts and Culture Tips — What Will Light Your Fire This Week

May 31, 2013
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Arts Fuse critics select some of the most promising in music, theater, and film for the coming week. A new feature!

Jazz Album Review: Singer Jo Lawry’s “Acrobats” — Pulling Off the Hardest Thing

February 7, 2023
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Left to her own devices for a change to pick the material, the format, and the musicians, singer Jo Lawry has chosen with grace and guts.

Music Feature: Best Non-Jazz Albums of 2019 – A Semi-Chronological Constellation

January 4, 2020
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Milo Miles tests a long-held theory: that critic comments on why entries made it onto lists have little or nothing to do with whether readers track down and listen to the selected music.

Theater Review: “Silent Sky” Celebrates the Pioneering Women Who Charted the Heavens

September 16, 2025
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Once again, the innovative CST/Catalyst Collaborative@MIT project proves that there are inspiring stories of women’s contributions to science that need to be told.

Food Commentary: The Chicken Sandwich Wars — Political Food Fight Revisited

February 28, 2020
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I confess that I was one of those schmucks who tried (and failed) to stay vigilant in my high-minded refusal to eat at Chick-fil-A.

Culture Vulture: Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Lecture

August 27, 2009
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By Helen Epstein No one reviews talks but I’ve just attended two by some highly gifted women that deserve wider notice. Director Anna Brownsted and actress Dana Harrison discussed their work on R.T. Rogers’ provocative play “White People” at Shakespeare & Company last week and author Brenda Wineapple gave a brilliant mini-seminar in American cultural…

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