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Book Review: “To Walk Alone in the Crowd” — Masterpiece or Mess?

August 6, 2021
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Like Blinky in Pac-Man, the narrator of this provocative but often frustrating and diffuse book gobbles up everything.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — March 30

March 30, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Book Review: “The Last Tsar”– Last Train to Pskov

March 23, 2025
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Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s towering achievement is to show that, while Nicholas II was betrayed, he lost his throne because he had made it impossible for anyone who loved Russia to be loyal to him.

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Jazz Review / Commentary: Chick Corea’s “The Continents” and the Problem of the Jazz Piano Concerto

February 22, 2012
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Chick Corea’s “The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet and Chamber Orchestra” is filled with tuneful melody, shows off some superb playing by the soloists, breaks new ground in a number of ways, and achieves nearly all of its ambitions.

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Festival Review: Ten for Ten at Big Ears in Knoxville

April 10, 2023
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In honor of Big Ears’ tenth edition, here’s a look at ten of my favorite festival moments.

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Film Commentary: The Redemption of Wes Anderson

January 16, 2010
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It’s easy, and popular, to write director Wes Anderson off as a hipster who offers nothing beyond quirk and the occasional funny line. But his films are really American versions of the French New Wave. by Justin Marble “He redeemed himself.” “Redemption? Sure. But in the end, he’s just another dead rat in a garbage…

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Music Feature: 20 Moments That Made Us Glad Live Music Returned in 2022

December 30, 2022
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Still, for all the gloom and doom, there’s no question that a bountiful amount of live music was finally on offer throughout the year as musicians and presenters continued to defy the odds.

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Visual Arts Review: Local Boy Makes Good at the Venice Biennale; Local Girl Perhaps Not So Much

June 24, 2015
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A mixed evaluation of the contributions of two New England artists — Joan Jonas and Mark Dion — at this year’s Venice Biennale.

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Book Review: Food for Thought, but Pie in the Sky: “Running with Robots — The American High School’s Third Century”

June 4, 2022
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Running with Robots not only makes reading about education reform fun, but also prods a broad readership to think critically about how learning should work in a future guided by artificial intelligence.

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Book Review: Franz Liszt — Piano Man

July 14, 2016
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Hilmes’ fascination with Liszt’s public notoriety stands front-and-center in this biographical effort.

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