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Theater Review: “Smart People” — A Sharp Satire of a “Post-Racial” World

June 9, 2014
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Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People is an amusing takedown of our “post-racial” world, and it is receiving a snappy, well-acted production via the Huntington Theatre Company.

Book Review: “Exit Right” — A Rich Study of Ideologues

June 14, 2016
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Exit Right is about how six men entered into politics on the left side of the spectrum and wound up immured in varying extremes of conservatism.

Theater Review: “The Skin of Our Teeth” — As Dark as the Daily News

July 4, 2018
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Thornton Wilder’s Big Ideas do not get lost in the hurly-burly of this production.

The Arts on Stamps of the World — September 14

September 14, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

Film Critic Interview: Watching Film Directors with David Thomson

April 23, 2021
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In his new book on film directors, critic David Thomson gives us plenty to think about and plenty more to argue about.

Theater Review: “Hair” — An Antique Trip

February 4, 2020
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The New Rep production of Hair is acceptable: if the intent was to look back at a now-dated musical that once caused a stir.

Arts Interview: Tim Page on the “Virgil Thomson: Music Chronicles, 1940-1954”

December 11, 2014
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Tim Page on a generous sampling of Virgil Thomson’s best music criticism – trenchant, outspoken, oftentimes delightfully clever, and always assured.

Book Review: “V2” — Robert Harris’s Gentler, Kinder World War II

November 19, 2020
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This is history from a distance. Harris’s characters feel more real when they’re working out the equations that will make a missile fly or fall than when they’re fleeing a double agent or a misfiring rocket.

Poetry Review: Paul Muldoon’s “Frolic and Detour” — Making the Intricate and Difficult Seem Easy

November 22, 2019
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Frolic and Detour contains a few poems that I judge to be instant classics of English-language poetry.

Book Review: Restraint Dampens “The Dream of the Celt”

August 6, 2012
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“The Dream of the Celt” succeeds at educating its readers about the worlds in which Sir Roger Casement lived his successive lives, but not about his successive personalities.

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