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Book Review: “Strange Beasts of China” — An Exuberant Chinese Fantasy

July 15, 2021
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The volume’s spirited imagination is strong enough to compensate for flaws in its translation.

Theater Review: Mermaids Don’t Lie in “From The Sea, To Somewhere Else”

July 20, 2016
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Those seeking whimsical and intimate theatrical entertainment should take in this imaginative production.

Book Review: “A Hero of France” — An Insider’s Guide to the French Resistance

June 16, 2016
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Alan Furst’s books are spy thrillers infused with a crisp, rather than a flowery, literary sensibility.

Fuse Food Review: “Yeeros” — A Splendidly Traditional Gyro Joint

May 26, 2016
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What fun to have meat carved off the revolving spit!

Dance Review: Howling Wolf—Abraham.In.Motion at the ICA

October 12, 2014
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One of the reasons audiences and funders love Kyle Abraham’s work is that the layered landscapes of his dances resonate with the fraught conditions outside the theatre.

Movie Review: Beware the Tire From Hell

May 3, 2011
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That Rubber fails to accomplish much of interest is really a shame. Call it a waste of potential: this film is, perhaps in spite of itself, sharply current—an ideal cinematic concept of the Internet age, self-consciousness gone a muck. Rubber. Directed by Quentin Dupieux. At Kendall Square Cinema. By Taylor Adams French director Quentin Dupieux’s…

Theater Review: “Mr. Burns” at the Lyric Stage — Not so Electrifying

April 14, 2016
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Anne Washburn has a number of good ideas in this play, but the execution falls short.

Poetry Review: “It’s Like That If You’re Alive” — The Poetry of Tone Škrjanec

March 6, 2015
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Looking deeply into things and, by no means least of all, into other human beings implies meditating on brevity, on ephemerality—and this is what Tone Škrjanec does in this book.

Film Review: “Armageddon Time” — Falling Between Two Worlds

October 24, 2022
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In James Gray’s new film, the tragedy and pain behind Jewish assimilation lurks just out of frame.

Theater Review: “Fast Company” — An Amusing Comedy About Flimflammers

March 11, 2016
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Fast Company may be light entertainment, but director M. Bevin O’Gara has assembled her own remarkable crew for this breezy caper comedy.

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