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Pop Album Review: Oliver Tree’s “Ugly Is Beautiful” — Embracing Our Inner Kookiness

July 27, 2020
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Though it’s inconsistent, Oliver Tree ‘s debut album offers an ample display of songwriting acumen along with his determined eccentricities.

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Theater Review: A Shattering “Slave Play” Rattles Broadway  

October 15, 2019
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Jeremy O. Harris’s bold new play is wildly provocative and hysterically funny.

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Rock Reviews: Heavy Metal Round-Up — Competing Apocalypses

April 27, 2020
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The cumulative message of these heavy metal bands might be: “I see your pandemic, and I raise you one.”

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Book Feature: Roberto Bolaño and the Half-Hearted Hoax

January 31, 2009
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Does it matter that posthumous literary darling Roberto Bolaño fibbed about his past? by Tommy Wallach My World Books review of “2666” A couple days ago, “The New York Times” published an article suggesting that Chilean novelist and posthumous literary darling Roberto Bolaño may have fictionalized aspects of his own biography. In question are two…

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Rock CD Reviews: A Pair of Golden Codgers

March 7, 2006
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Old timers Ray Davies, an ex-Kink, and Donald Fagen, ex-Steely Dan, have released surprisingly youthful solo albums. “Morph the Cat” (Reprise); “Other People’s Lives” (V2) By James Marcus “Hope I die before I get old,” declared The Who’s Pete Townshend in 1965, and certainly there have been times, during his drink-and-drug-addled middle decades, when he…

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Theater Interview: Kai Maristed on “Paul and Émile” — The Vicissitudes of Friendship

September 22, 2025
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“If my work does have a recurrent theme, it is the pressure of the political/historical moment on individual choice.”

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Theater Review: “Becoming a Man” — Making a Statement

February 25, 2024
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If only “Becoming a Man”‘s pathos were less streamlined, its theatricality more ambitious.

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Design Commentary: Department of Play — Creating a New Urban Planning Paradigm

May 27, 2023
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Participatory, small-scale planning is a powerful step forward because it doesn’t pay lip service to cliches about “listening to the community.”

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Film Reviews: The English Dispatch — London Film Festival (Part 1)

October 17, 2021
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With my customary determination and pluck, I’ve been able to get access to plenty of films at the London Film Fest that cover a broad spectrum of genres, budgets, and nations.

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Rap Album Review: “Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine” — The Art of Musical Diversity

July 18, 2021
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Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine is Brockhampton’s tightest album to date.

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