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Book Review: “The Man Between” — Homage to a Translator Extraordinaire

January 21, 2015
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The Man Between offers a fascinating glimpse of the late master translator Michael Henry Heim, its reportedly modest and reticent protagonist.

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Jazz CD Review: “The Jerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi and Mose Allison” — Paying Exciting Homage

May 21, 2020
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The interpretations of the covers in this beautifully realized tribute album will bring back memories of the originals in a way that is enlivening rather than nostalgic.

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Theater Review: “King John” — Fractured History Lesson

February 5, 2020
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Praxis Stage picked the right time to stage a Shakespeare play about a head of state who doesn’t have anything on his mind but corruption.

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Music Remembrance: Adeus, João Gilberto, Free-Spirited Creator of Bossa Nova

July 16, 2019
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Melhor do que isso só mesmo o silêncio, melhor do que o silêncio só joão (The only thing better than [music] is silence, the only thing better than silence is João)—Caetano Veloso (“Pra Ninguém”)

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Book Review: Oscar Wilde Fights the Dying of the Light

October 9, 2017
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Oscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — April 28

April 28, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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Jazz Artist Appreciation: Sheila Jordan (1928-2025)

August 12, 2025
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Each time I heard Sheila Jordan sing live, I remember being spellbound, embraced, dazzled, awestruck, and I know I’m not alone. 

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Book Review: “Wail” — A Great Biography of Jazz Legend Bud Powell

November 13, 2013
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Peter Pullman deplores (without bathos) the wreckage of Bud Powell’s life and mourns (without tears) the consequent loss of so much masterful music. And his story of Powell’s life is even grimmer than the one we have previously been told.

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Opera Album Reviews: A Major Classical Label Arises — Four More Fine Baroque Operas

October 12, 2024
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Each of these four works has its own flavor, and lovers of Baroque and Classic-era music will happily scoop up one or more of the recordings.

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Book Review: The Many Faces of Elaine May

February 7, 2025
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This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.

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