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Theater Review: “The Night of the Iguana” — A Creature Feature

March 4, 2017
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The ART presents a staid production of Tennessee Williams’ talky chamber play about wanderers struggling to be released from their pain.

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Cultural Feature: Boston’s “Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide” — Still Going Strong After Three Decades

September 4, 2022
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More than 1,400 writers have been featured in G&LR’s uninterrupted run over the last three decades.

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Book Review: “Time of the Magicians” — The Search for the Language of God

August 31, 2020
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In his book, Wolfram Eilenberger has provided an absorbing view of a period in Western intellectual history that was committed to the new.

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Book Review: Joni Mitchell — One Side, Now

September 8, 2014
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The pleasures of Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words are the pleasures of being a fly on the wall.

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In Memoriam: Asa Brebner

March 19, 2019
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When you play music onstage with someone over the decades you know what they’re thinking with a single glance.

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Jazz Album Review: Corina Bartra’s “Amber Light” — Unlistenable? Or Genius?

February 22, 2022
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Others may hear a painfully flawed Latin jazz album, but what I heard was a brilliant postmodern ironic jam session in the mode of Ornette Coleman. I’m probably wrong, but I don’t care, because this album is a blast.

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Book Review: Matinee Modernism — Celebrity and Academia Converge and It Isn’t Pretty

August 22, 2011
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What could have been a readable, informative, pleasurable book that would, much like Woody Allen’s recent film MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, enhance our experience of some of the modernist figures we adore wallows too often in brain-dead literary theory.

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October Short Fuses — Materia Critica

October 3, 2024
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Jazz Concert Review: Ran Blake Casts an Unbroken Spell at the Regattabar

September 23, 2024
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Pianist Ran Blake’s performance was like a long dreamscape of personal reflection and meditation.

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Film Review: “Marlowe” — A Whydunnit

February 15, 2023
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This is a Marlowe movie trying too hard to be a Marlowe movie. But it doesn’t have the heart to succeed.

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