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World Books: ‘Pornografia’ translation earns an award

July 4, 2010
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By Bill Marx In English, Polish novelist, playwright, short story writer, and brazen, metaphysical gadfly Witold Gombrowicz remains under appreciated, a modernist who was never pulled into the highbrow bandwagon. Part of that neglect is thanks to bad translations that, in some cases, bowdlerized the Polish text or were translated from a French version of…

Opera Album Review: Offenbach in a Spanish Mood, in a Top-notch First Recording

October 1, 2020
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Bravo to the Bru Zane folks for this latest triumph! I encourage opera lovers to get to know this treasurable Spanish (or faux-Spanish) work by the pioneering master of nineteenth-century operetta.

Theater Interview: Beau Jest Turns 30 — Davis Robinson on Moving into “Apt. 4D”

June 8, 2014
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We do it for the joy and communitas of making theater together much as we do for responding to the world around us through art.

Theater Review: Mad Horse Theatre’s “The Nether” — Through a Glass, Darkly

January 25, 2017
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Jennifer Haley’s play is compelling and timely because it forces us to face facts, actual and alternative.

Concert Review: Herbie Hancock at the Boch Center Wang Theatre

October 30, 2025
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 At 85, Herbie Hancock can still funk it up.

Visual Arts Review: Marks from Elsewhere — Cy Twombly and Léonie Guyer

February 28, 2023
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It’s no wonder poets have been drawn to write about Guyer and Twombly’s work. We are carried away by an art that is always immediate, hic et nunc, but elsewhere too.

Book Review: “Hot Maroc” — A Moroccan Walter Mitty as Internet Troll

December 8, 2021
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Hot Maroc is more of a three-ring circus than a drama, with a high-wire act at one end, tigers and elephants at the other, and scurrying clowns in the middle.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — November 23

November 23, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Book Review: Crime and Espionage — to the Sounds of Jazz

September 12, 2020
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There’s a larger story to tell about black composers and musicians breaking into the film and TV business, but its only lightly touched on here.

DocTalk: On the Barricades of Europe — The Boston Baltic Film Festival

March 3, 2023
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The populations in former Soviet Socialist Republics and current NATO members Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia know all too well what it’s like to live under Russian subjugation as is seen in a trio of trenchant and timely documentaries.

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