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Book Review: Clive James and the Rewards of Writing Poetry

March 24, 2020
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English writer Ian Shircore’s book-length study gives Clive James’ poems the loving attention they deserve.

Book Review: ‘Chuck Close: Life’ ignores the Big Questions

June 15, 2010
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The narrative turns out to have the blandly cheerful tone and slightly stilted prose of an official biography: the sort of thing with the CEO’s picture on the cover, given out at stockholders meetings. Chuck Close: Life, by Christopher Finch. Prestel, 352 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Peter Walsh In these media-saturated, image-obsessed times, every public…

Theater Interview: “Investigating the New” — Actor/Director Vincent Murphy Reflects on Life and Theater

September 18, 2025
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What has made for a successful life in the theater? Living by the values Vincent Murphy imbibed as a member of Boston Children’s Theatre in the ’60s: “cooperation, creativity, listening, and play.”

Music Interview: Bryan Porter Hinkley’s “99 Shots” — Trusting His Gut

May 23, 2024
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This month, the veteran guitarist, singer, and songwriter released his first solo album, 99 Shots, and found himself leaning in a direction he had spent decades avoiding.

Classical CD Reviews: Alice Coote sings Mahler and Honegger’s “Le roi David”

July 10, 2017
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A wonderful new performance of Mahler’s three orchestral song cycles; Daniel Reuss’s account of the oratorio Le Roi David is basically flawless.

Poetry Review: Valerio Magrelli’s “Vanishing Points”

March 19, 2011
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Magrelli’s is a reserved, critical intelligence, and his poems do not issue from a position of knowledge, but rather from a doubt that stands, and dances, slowly on a profound respect for ambiguity.

Theater Review: “We All Fall Down” — Flat

January 29, 2020
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In the spirit of Passover’s four questions, I will ask: Why this play of all plays?

Arts Commentary: The Attack of the Mooninite

February 19, 2007
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Given the growing inclination, in the name of security, to regulate public expression, is it any wonder that protest art is scarce?

Book Review: Jackson Lears’s “Animal Spirits” — A Chronicle of American Zing

June 9, 2023
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Historian Jackson Lears assembles sightings of a world that’s changeable, mutable, and filled with animalism, vitalism, or whatever else you want to call it. But what’s the point?

Film Review: “Sloane: A Jazz Singer” — Making the Most of Your Gift

June 19, 2023
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Sloane: A Jazz Singer is very sweet film that never cloys because of the singer’s naturalness, honesty, occasional self-deprecation, and sense of humor.

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