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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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Fuse Theater Review: Shakespeare in Paris

July 3, 2011
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The production is set in France of the 1920s and artfully combines evocations of both Paris and the Forest of Arden: The city of lights is represented by miniature versions of famous landmarks: the Arc de Triomphe; Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower — that twinkle at night and serve as props as well as set.

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Book Review: “Goyhood” — A Rambunctious Romp and a Novel of Ideas

July 18, 2024
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“Goyhood” can be larger than life, and its plot is a real doozy, but this isn’t a lightly comic excursion: the religious and social consternations that roil the brothers Belkin are as earnest as they are outlandish. 

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Book Review: Social Critic Jackson Lears Cheers the “Off-Modern”

March 7, 2025
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Jackson Lears’s collection of essays and book reviews gets a few things right in its description of various kooks, oddballs, and mavericks who sometimes succeeded in moving history in their direction. But it gets far more wrong.

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Film Review: “The Menu” — Killer Cuisine

November 28, 2022
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The Menu serves up a ghoulish and madly entertaining two hours of prime cinema.

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Jazz Album Review: Valuable Blasts from the Past — Bill Evans and Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller

July 27, 2021
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Two previously unreleased archival recordings take us on trips into the past well worth taking.

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Media Commentary: Walter Lippmann and the Need for Reliable News

August 13, 2019
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99 years after Liberty and the News, Walter Lippmann’s hopes for journalism remain largely unfulfilled.

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Jazz Album Reviews: Spirited Quests from Pianist Fred Hersch and Saxophonist Tony Malaby

January 5, 2022
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The Cave of Winds and Breath By Breath amply confirm that, regardless of the stress of COVID, jazz’s life-force remains strong as we venture into a brave new year.

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Visual Arts Review: Frances Stark — The Art of Innuendo

September 20, 2016
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Frances Stark is making art about art about art..

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Book Review: Edith Wharton and Michelle Obama — Breaking New Ground for Women

January 2, 2019
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What impressed me most about these two different women is they were both products of an America which values determination and wit and intelligence, as well as opportunity.

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