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Book Review: “War Diary” — When Dread Replaces the Everyday

April 16, 2023
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Ukrainian writer, artist and photographer Yevgenia Belorusets’ diary blends the visceral with the mundane, showing just how quickly dread replaces everyday life.

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Book Review: Karl Kraus’s Prophetic “Third Walpurgis Night” — Listening to the Music of an Ocean of Mud

November 13, 2020
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“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”— Karl Kraus

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Visual Arts Review: Jim Dine Prints — A Vocabulary of Feelings

April 29, 2025
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Every subject in Jim Dine’s richly rendered work seems to edge towards something other than itself, deeper and more personal.

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Musician’s Interview: Barry Burns of Mogwai Talks About Stoking “The Bad Fire”

April 8, 2025
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Mogwai’s explosive sound has inspired numerous bands around the world, including in the Boston area. 

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Arts Remembrance: Michael Nesmith

December 10, 2021
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With Michael Nesmith’s passing, Boomers of a certain age feel another piece of their youth disappearing.

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Musician Interview: “Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies In Jazztime” turns 60

December 29, 2023
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The album’s explicit mix of modern jazz and klezmer set a template that is still being used by many of today’s most prominent Jewish music experimentalists.

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Book Review: The Fascinating Life Story of a Great American Composer — Samuel Adler

October 17, 2024
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Samuel Adler, now 96 and still composing, has released an updated version of his rich, entertaining, and sometimes gripping memoir of a life well lived.

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Book Review: “Young Skins” – The Precariousness of Even a Timid Existence

April 13, 2015
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The events Colin Barrett renders in Young Skins have the texture of life, albeit the darker side, in that they puzzle and disturb and linger painfully.

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Movie Review: “Triangle of Sadness” — A Saw-Toothed Attack on Capitalist Excess

October 11, 2022
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Ruben Östlund is a richly talented filmmaker who puts the world of outrageous privilege in his cross hairs.

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Book Review: Rabih Alameddine’s “Angel of History” — Knocked Askew

October 5, 2016
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This is a book about “survivor’s guilt,” and also about the terrible loneliness that comes of losing so many whom you love.

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