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The talent at Club Passim’s Nanci Griffith night represented at least two generations: it was a nice, low-key salute to the singer/songwriter, who played the venue often in the mid-’80s.
Read MoreReaders inspired to take a listening journey from Gioia’s historical perspective will benefit greatly from his delineation of jazz’s various forms.
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The documentary supplies plenty of deserved admiration for its haggard but gentle subject, but it doesn’t tell us enough about the enduring value of Kurt Vonnegut’s writing.
Read MoreI don’t share Rebecca Mead’s awe for “Middlemarch,” but I share her enthusiasm for stretching the envelope of memoir.
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The Bird King is an utterly lovely reading experience.
Read MoreWhile jazz and classical Hindustani music, tap and kathak, share a number of striking elements, the collaboration presented in India Jazz Suites is not about “fusion.”
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This book is a fiery manifesto that charges that copyright law today is an outrageously unjust scheme that does nothing for 99 percent of authors, other creative people, and their fans, while it locks up a commodity that fills the coffers of large corporations.
Read MoreIt’s not a simple story. It’s a story about dreadful ideas, hideous politics and their interaction with art and aesthetic judgment.
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Religion is false, unscientific, and morally dubious, and any discussion that doesn’t take that as its starting point will end up going astray.
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Theater Commentary: Notes Toward a Definition of Theater, Part One — “Be Bold and Wild”
As we grapple with building the brave new world of live theater in a Covid and post-Covid world, a few stray thoughts.
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