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Book Review: Up Close and Personal? — “The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us”

August 30, 2020
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With journalistic flair, The Years That Matter Most brilliantly shows how, in terms of college opportunities, the scales of justice tilt in favor of the wealthy.

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Book Review: “Blue Light Hours” — Unimpeachable Noticing

October 15, 2024
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Bruna Dantas Lobato’s sensibility is unmistakably original: she explores her protagonist’s life and surroundings like a dowsing rod, poking into closets, corners, and cupboards.

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Rethinking the Repertoire #23 – Henry Cowell’s Piano Concerto

June 7, 2018
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Henry Cowell’s was an important, if now often forgotten, voice in 20th-century music.

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Visual Arts Book Review: “Florine Stettheimer: A Biography” — One of American Art’s Greatest Enigmas

March 7, 2022
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The volume’s overarching goal is to restore Florine Stettheimer to what the biographer sees as her rightful reputation as one of the great American artists of the 20th century.

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Musician Interview: Talking to Folk-Rock Troubadour Steve Forbert

July 23, 2025
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It’s difficult to say if Steve Forbert sounds youthful now or if he has long since fully grown into his always expressive and distinctive voice. Or both.

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Theater Review: “Albatross” — A Return to Theater as Poetry

May 18, 2015
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Albatross is terrific — a powerful script, vital performance, and imaginative stage design.

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Book Review: “Show Trial” — Not Ready for Primetime

April 15, 2018
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Thomas Doherty’s fragmented, stop-and-start-again style dilutes narrative authority and further complicates an already very complicated story.

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Book Interview: Natsume Sōseki — A Century After the Death of a Literary Giant

December 9, 2016
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Maybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.

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Fuse Commentary: Book Review Blues

July 30, 2007
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Bloggers are concerned about the fate of book reviews, so raising questions about the quality of book commentary online, especially asking how it can become better, is worth the effort. But any discussion about the future of reviews must be based in reality rather in wishful thinking or defensive delusion. By Bill Marx In an…

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Book Review: “Twelve-Cent Archie” — A Highly Entertaining Look at the Teens of Riverdale

June 17, 2015
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What makes Twelve-Cent Archie such a congenial read is that Bart Beaty is a free thinker about comic books.

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