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Book Appreciation: Celebrating Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life” –The Best Novel of the 21st Century

September 10, 2023
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In “Life After Life,” novelist Kate Atkinson has shown how boundless the imagination can be.

Book Interview: Susan Larson’s “The Murder of Figaro” — Mozart Goes Sleuthing

August 5, 2019
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Susan Larson’s The Murder of Figaro is spiced with raunch, witticisms, and behind the scenes verisimilitude of rehearsal life.

Book Review: “The Conservative Sensibility” — A Plea for a Return to Normalcy

December 10, 2019
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The very people that George Will is trying to appeal to are evidently quite happy to be drunk on the power that their brutishness has created.

Visual Arts: Ambergris and Alchemy — A Pilgrimage to John Singer Sargent’s “Fumée d’Ambre Gris”

January 27, 2013
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At times I leave off my avid samplings of one entrancement after another in a great museum. Instead, I make a pilgrimage dedicated to a single work, such as John Singer Sargent’s intoxicating woman in white in “Fumée d’Ambre Gris” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Dance Review: Beth Gill’s Passages

May 16, 2017
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Offering a carefully calibrated, nearly static universe, Beth Gill relies on the audience’s imagination to fill in any question marks

Jazz Albums Review: The ‘Season’ of Newvelle Muri — Adventurous, Sure-Footed, and Strikingly Lyrical

November 14, 2019
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The sound on these discs couldn’t be more clear or precise; the music is low-key, thoughtful, and resolutely melodious.

Arts Remembrance: At 40, Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays’s “As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls” Still Enthralls

April 23, 2021
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Nothing that guitarist Pat Metheny had done previously hinted at this sprawling 1981 masterpiece.

New York Film Festival 2023: The Arrival of a Master — Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall”

October 9, 2023
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This is a Strindbergian dance to the death between a powerful, accomplished woman and a husband tormented by his own sense of failure.

Theater Review: “The Women Who Mapped the Stars” — Heroines of the Creative Mind

May 4, 2018
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At the heart of The Women Who Mapped The Stars is a drama about the desire of significant female astronomers to be heard and respected.

Music Interview: Talking with Cisco Swank about His New EP — and the Roots of Creativity

September 13, 2020
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“You’re always gonna be yourself, your unique self, so it’s important to incorporate the things that you really love.”

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