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Translation Spotlight: Haunted and Haunting

December 29, 2025
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Appreciations of three remarkable translated works that have preoccupied me for months.

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Book Review: “Razzle Dazzle” Minus Some of the Sparkle — John Lahr Profiles the Stars, and Himself

December 6, 2025
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If John Lahr could learn, even in his eighties, to cut back on his own self-adoration and stop being so damned star struck, the razzle in his profiles would dazzle all the more.

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Reviews and Retrospective: Jane Ira Bloom’s “once like a spark” and “Songs in Space”

December 30, 2025
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2025 turned out to be a feast year for devotees of soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. The music found on both of these releases could be thought of as exemplifying three areas Bloom has explored in depth and refined to purity.

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Book Review: “Corrections At Work” — – Practical Reforms for Correctional Officers, Sidestepping Abolition

December 4, 2025
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When it comes to the aberrant conditions in today’s jails and prisons, concerns such as how corrections officers are regarded by their superiors in the system, the media, and the public are beside the point.

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Arts Commentary: From the Editor’s Desk — By Popular Demand, 2026

January 7, 2026
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A selection of my top newsletter columns for 2026.

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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger

December 25, 2025
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Sometimes the stranger is someone who is very well known to us, like a father whose strange ways include a devotion to a certain story about a childhood in Wales.

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Heavy Metal Preview: Converge Puts Together the Saddest Day 2025 Festival

December 8, 2025
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Converge bassist Nate Newton joked that, if it were left to him, he would have called this event “The Night of Seven Savage Weirdos”. Though when everything finally came together, even more weirdos were added to the mix.

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Poetry Review: “Sky of Sudden Changes” — In Living Color

January 3, 2026
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Many of the poems in this new collection take in the world through a distinctively painterly eye for scenes and sketches.

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AT DOC NYC: A Filmmaker’s Farewell to a Friend, Flophouse Vérité, and the Fight for “Female Viagra”

December 4, 2025
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A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.

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Book Review: Nayland Blake’s “Dungeon Studio”: Four Decades of Queer Vision and Voice

December 20, 2025
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Throughout their anthology, Nayland Blake reminds readers of the importance of maintaining authenticity and self-representation in every facet of creative work.

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