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Film Review: “The Wolfpack” — Saved by the Movies

June 19, 2015
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This documentary explores the lives of 6 movie-crazed, teenage brothers who grew up locked away in a NYC housing project.

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Theater Review: “The Shepherds’ Singularity”—Time Travel Meets Christmas

December 10, 2015
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The Shepherds’ Singularity‘s playful combination of science fiction and invention will surely incite thoughtful questioning and genuine wonder.

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Theater Review: “John Proctor Is the Villain ” — Critiquing a Classic

March 6, 2024
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The energizing force of this production comes from the students and, more specifically, the cohort of young women in the cast, each of whom is excellent.

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Video Game Commentary: PAX East 2019 — Day One

May 25, 2019
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My first day at this year’s PAX East was generally disappointing, though there was some enjoyment to be had.

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Visual Arts Review: Zoya Cherkassky – An Immigrant Paints the Other Israel

April 29, 2023
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Her hope for Israel today, Zoya Cherkassky told me, is the evolution of a multi-racial society that she hopes will ensure its survival.

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Theater Commentary: Facing Some Hard Truths

February 13, 2024
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The time is overdue for a serious discussion of what is happening (or not happening) in Boston-area theaters. Just don’t expect to see anything in our sheepish mainstream media.

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Culture Vulture: Tracking the Transcendentalists

May 25, 2010
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There are dozens of excellent books about the Alcotts, Emersons, Thoreau, and Hawthorne but reading them can’t beat actually walking through the places where the people actually lived. By Helen Epstein “We are all going to be made perfect,” wrote ten-year-old Louisa May Alcott in June of 1843, “This day we left Concord in the…

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Poetry Review: “What Comes from the Night” — Witnessing Tiny Secret Lives

December 10, 2024
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“What Comes from the Night’ testifies to John Taylor’s complex bond with nature, a generous alliance that includes moments of introspection and melancholy.

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Book Reviews: The Fiction of Mikołaj Grynberg — Simultaneously Embracing the Tragic and the Comic

March 11, 2025
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Two astonishing books about the lives of Polish Jews who survived the Second World War or were born after the war.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

February 15, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, and author events for the coming week.

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