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Children’s Book Reviews: Celebrating Blackness

February 25, 2025
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Three engaging and spirited books celebrate Black history, culture, and resilience.

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Book Review: “Just Beyond the Light” — Essential Heavy-Metal Lit

February 17, 2025
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There are similarities between Randall Blythe’s music and his prose; both acknowledge the inescapable turmoil, darkness, and tragedy that bedevils everyone.

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Book Review: Leonard Cohen’s “A Ballet of Lepers and Short Stories” — An Unwelcome Anachronism

November 8, 2022
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Sometimes works that major artists withheld — like songs that are not deemed worthy of release —are best kept in the vaults.

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Dance Review: Boston Dance Theater’s “Carol Kaye Project” — A Thrilling Tribute

June 13, 2023
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Bravo for the Boston Dance Theater’s decision to venture outside of Boston and perform at an interesting venue in Portland, ME.

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Film Reviews: Sundance 2022, Dispatch #3 — What Remains

January 25, 2022
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I’ve seen a really interesting assortment of films so far. I can’t recite them all from memory,  but they’re not blurring into each other, either. Not yet, anyway.

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Poetry Review: “Black Earth” — The Irresistible Appeal of Poet Osip Mandelstam

August 13, 2021
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Russian poet Osip Mandelstam’s “ancient language” is rendered into real contemporary poetry in English that succeeds in speaking eloquently to the inner eye and ear.

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Book Review: “The Bird King” — Nothing But Enchantment

March 12, 2019
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The Bird King is an utterly lovely reading experience.

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Theater Preview: “Frederick Douglass NOW” — History in the Present Tense

September 11, 2018
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The performer’s question is direct: has the talented orator anything to say about race in today’s America? The answer is a galvanizing yes.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Paying Attention to Boston’s Jewish Expressionists

May 22, 2018
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Until recently, the Museum of Fine Arts has ignored Boston’s artists of Jewish heritage.

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Fuse Film Review: “The People vs. Fritz Bauer” — The Trials and Tribulations of a Nazi Hunter

May 3, 2016
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Reality is the driving force behind the suspense in this film’s look at the lurid underbelly of post-war Germany.

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