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Book Review: “Running Out” — Drought Time

November 3, 2021
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The sense of loss that necessarily pervades Running Out is balanced is by Lucas Bessire’s lyrical prose, whose consistently crisp beauty serves as a welcome respite.

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Stage Review: “Blood Rose Rising” — The Mysterious Perils of The “Immaterial Girl”

September 21, 2012
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Part of the problem with the first episode of the “Blood Rose Rising” series may be signs of the show’s indecisive intent: is it a comic thriller spoof, a scary horror mystery, or a serious drama about relationships and spirituality?

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Fuse Theater Review: “Night is a Room”—Primal Bluster

November 24, 2015
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Perhaps the yuck factor of Night is a Room’s sexual proclivities elicits giggles as a cover for not knowing how or for whom to care.

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Film Review: “In Transit” — Albert Maysles’s Marvelous Final Testament

August 31, 2017
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Everyone who loves documentary, who cherishes the Maysles brothers’ legacy, should rush to the Brattle Theatre to see In Transit.

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Theater Review: “Going to See the Kid” — Baseball for the Holidays

December 13, 2016
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Despite some small misfires, Going to See the Kid tells an amusing, heartfelt story with confidence and flair.

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Film Review: “Adult Beginners” — Learning the Same Old Lessons

April 24, 2015
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The comedy-tinged-with-drama touches on themes tackled by a bunch of recent indie movies that center on characters in their thirties and forties who feel like imposters in the world of adults.

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Book Review: Summer Reading Retrospective — Vanishing Is The Thing

September 16, 2012
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The big theme in fiction this summer was the resonance of disappearance — seen as satire, as melodrama, and as tragedy.

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Visual Arts Review: In Gloucester, Edward Hopper Became Hopper

August 6, 2023
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A leitmotif of this exhibition underlines Josephine Nivison Hopper’s role in her husband’s emergence as one of the most successful and beloved artists of his generation.

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Author Interview: Dr. Peniel E. Joseph on the Third Reconstruction and Hope for a Multiracial Democracy

April 25, 2023
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Blake Maddux talks to Peniel Joseph about his latest book, “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.”

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Theater Review: “Winter Solstice” — The Neo-Nazi Who Came For Christmas

March 5, 2018
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Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice is an important play by a major playwright.

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