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Book Review: Homage to Scott Miller — Perceptive Attention Paid to a Lost Pop Genius

August 28, 2016
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Brett Milano approaches his subject with encyclopedic knowledge, a fan’s fervor, and the seasoned music journalist’s skill.

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Book Review: “John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit” — A Sympathetic Look at a New England Aristocrat

April 27, 2016
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James Traub has admirably captured the man inside the public figure, giving us a complex view of a typical New England grandee.

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Poetry Review: Pierre Reverdy’s “Song of the Dead” — Imprisoned in Life

February 7, 2017
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Despite one’s aspirations to another kind of reality, for Pierre Reverdy one is forced to return to one’s fetters.

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Book Interview: Christopher Ricks on “The Poems of T.S. Eliot, The Annotated Text.”

May 18, 2016
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Editors Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue are not trying to teach us how to read the poems.

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Book Interview: George Scialabba on Low Dishonest Decades — and the Dishonesty to Come

December 12, 2016
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Reading the essays in this collection is like receiving a first-rate tutorial on the way we live now and how we got here.

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Concert Review: The Chicago Blues Festival — A Reassuring Vision of the Future

June 19, 2025
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This year’s Chicago Blues Festival provided plenty of hope for the blues.

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Book Review: “Shooting Midnight Cowboy” — A Very Good Read

May 14, 2021
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What motivated me to read this book? Not for a special love of Midnight Cowboy, a movie which I like but isn’t ultimately important to me. It was to learn about James Leo Herlihy, who has interested me since I was an adolescent.

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Short Fuse: Of Henry Kissinger, China, Stink Bugs, and the Games that Shape the Mind

June 22, 2011
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“On China” boasts photos of Henry Kissinger’s numerous visits to China. In many you see him smiling hugely, brandishing chopsticks alongside the likes of Zhou Enlai. He’s enjoying making history — and the food.

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Book Review: “Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras” — Celebrating Blaxploitation Cinema

January 26, 2024
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“Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras” celebrates Blaxploitation as a positive as well as a necessary turning point in American cinema.

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Doc Talk — Salem’s lot

March 27, 2025
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The best documentaries of 2025 can be seen at the Salem Film Fest.

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