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Book Review: “The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers” — In-between Worlds

December 21, 2016
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Fouad Laroui’s striking collection of stories describes a world “where everything is foreign.”

Book Review: “The Last Bookseller” — A Breezy Memoir of Life in the Rare Book Trade

December 8, 2021
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The arrival of the internet adds a sour-grapes ending to an otherwise fairly compelling narrative.

Film Review: The Devil and “Elvis”

June 25, 2022
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For 2 hours and 39 minutes, I was happy to sell my soul to Lucifer

Film Review: Scorsese’s “Age of Innocence” — Re-released

June 22, 2018
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The privilege Edith Wharton’s characters swim in has not disappeared. If anything, it’s expanded farther into the social stratosphere.

Theater Review: A Rewarding “Red”

January 12, 2012
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“Red” is a drama about the modern artist and his place in art history: at its center, painter Mark Rothko confronts fame and the commoditization of creativity in the world of contemporary art.

Book Appreciation: Novelist and Short Story Writer John Cheever At 100 — America’s Chekhov?

June 4, 2012
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May 27th marked what would have been the one-hundredth anniversary of writer John Cheever’s birth. (He was born in Quincy, MA.) June 18th marks the thirtieth anniversary of his death.

Visual Arts: Going Beyond the Skin

August 17, 2010
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This MFA exhibition displays some of the most intricate manifestations of tattoos in woodblock prints, leaving the viewer curious about its footprints in contemporary art and popular culture. By Yumi Araki Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints is showing at the Museum of Fine Arts through January 2, 2011. As a cultural prelude to…

Book Review: “All Quiet on the Western Front” — Diagnosing the Illness of War

March 22, 2025
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Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of an ordinary soldier’s life in the trenches of WWI remains shocking and shattering today.

Film Reviews: At the Berlin International Film Festival — Two Movies about Workers Under Assault

February 19, 2022
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Two stylistically different films in which workers are exploited and empowered.

Theater Review: Theatrical Time Machines — Wild Swans and Time of My Life

March 2, 2012
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Both productions play around with chronology in order to show the dark side of history, to unmask convenient illusions of social or personal well-being by juxtaposing the myopia of the past with the payback of the future.

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