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Opera Album Review: Meyerbeer’s Comic Opera about Peter the Great, A Welcome Return

December 13, 2022
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This re-release of a superb recording of a major Meyerbeer opera reminds us what treasures are available to opera companies (and college opera programs) willing to step beyond the well-trodden path.

December Short Fuses – Materia Critica

December 5, 2021
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Theater Reviews: “Operation Mincemeat” and “Buena Vista Social Club” Reflect a Banner Year for Broadway Musicals

April 3, 2025
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A clever British import and a soulful Cuban music-fest reflect a season that delivers the full range of musical storytelling Broadway’s been missing

Book Review: “MFA vs NYC” — There Are Worlds Elsewhere

March 28, 2014
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The culture of American fiction is never as neatly defined as books like “MFA vs NYC” make it out to be.

Rock CD Review: Queen, “Live at the Rainbow ‘74” — Before They Were Massive

September 30, 2014
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The newly released Live at the Rainbow ’74 set proves that Queen had been slaying audiences since the beginning of their career.

Book Review: “The Wrong End of the Telescope” — A Stunning Achievement

November 8, 2021
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This is a wonderful novel about a pressing humanitarian subject, Syrian refugees and the people who helped, as well as an exploration of identity and loss and triumph.

Book Review: “We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive

March 12, 2022
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What do the words of an imprisoned Uyghur dissident tell us about the desperate plight of China’s ethnic minorities today?

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Blue Lives Madder, “Dirty Harry” Turns 50

June 4, 2021
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The path Dirty Harry (and too many of his defenders, then and now) chose to pursue — the urban policing version of “killing the village in order to save it” — was outdated and discredited even in 1971.

Book Interview: Zena Hitz on the Pleasures and Values of the Intellectual Life

May 28, 2020
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“We’re at the end, or toward the end, of an extended collapse of the institutions that made it possible for many of us to make a living through intellectual or creative activity. We’ll have to find another way.”

Fuse Theater Review: “Nice Fish” — An Amusingly Big Catch

January 29, 2016
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Nice Fish serves up a deliciously droll brand of American existentialism.

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