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Fuse Commentary: The Value of Browsing and Discovering That the “Shit Must Stop”

April 24, 2015
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Sometime you go in search of one thing, and you stumble upon something else. And maybe that newly discovered thing is something wonderful.

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Author Interview: Peniel E. Joseph on “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.”

June 5, 2020
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“Malcolm X and MLK evolved over time and came to converge in surprising ways. Malcolm’s movement for radical black dignity became a global human rights touchstone in a manner that made King’s struggle for radical black citizenship both necessary and more expansive.”

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Book Review: Paolo Giordano’s “Tasmania” — A Brilliant Novel about Being Blinded by Personal Catastrophes

October 1, 2024
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An absorbing novel that builds steadily, not to a shattering or violent conclusion (all the violence is in the past or offstage) but to a quiet release that is humane and persuasive.

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Author Interview: Jared Ross Hardesty on “Slavery in New England” — More Pervasive Than You Thought

February 3, 2020
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“The idea that slavery was not economically important to New England as a whole is just emphatically not true.”

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Book Review: “John Constable: A Portrait” — The Slow Triumph of a Great British Landscape Painter

March 20, 2023
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James Hamilton’s biography of British landscape painter John Constable is a highly accomplished, beautifully composed, revealing, and richly entertaining work of scholarship.

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Film Review: “Boston Strangler” — Pioneers of Journalism and Feminism

March 18, 2023
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Boston Strangler centers on women journalists who are devalued and must hold their own, demanding safety and justice in a society that doesn’t always deem them worthy of protection.

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Theater Review: Two Plays Chronicle the Lives of Pioneering Women

July 4, 2012
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Two Berkshire theaters are offering one-woman shows this summer. Both scripts feature intelligent, frank, and charismatic women. Both productions star gifted and seasoned actors.

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Theater Review: “Informed Consent” — When Science and Ethics Collide

February 25, 2017
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Informed Consent is the smartest play I’ve seen hit Boston area stages since the new year began.

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Book Interview: A New Take on Kafka — A Conversation with Peter Wortsman

October 9, 2016
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The standard view of Kafka reduces him to the patron saint of neurotics.

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Theater Review: “Make My Heart Flutter” — The Father of Israeli Drama Looks at the Foolishness of Infatuation

November 13, 2014
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To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies.

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