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Book Review: A Well-Rounded Look at Napoleon the Man and the Myth

December 17, 2014
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Andrew Roberts has succeeded in a single volume in reconciling the two faces of this historical colossus.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Haydn, Bartók, and Tchaikovsky

December 1, 2015
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Andris Nelsons possesses a clear fondness for Slavic music and his Tchaikovsky performances in Boston have become can’t-miss events.

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Book Review: “Great Demon Kings” — A Comet Circling Gas Giants

July 30, 2020
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John Giorno was in the vanguard of what later became the herd: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Warhol, Buddhism, Burroughs, enlightenment, spiritual quests to India, unfettered sex, wild poetry, new technology, experimental forms of expression, queer politics, pot, speed, LSD —  all the household bric-a-brac of the counterculture.

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Visual Arts Review: Homage to “The Gunshine State” — The Met Museum Hosts Photos by Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans 

November 13, 2024
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In this illuminating show you’ll recognize the state that (for now) is home to Donald Trump and was the habitat for Jeffrey Epstein and a wide range of other dangerous creatures.

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Musician Interview: Cappella Clausura Explores the Light Amidst the Darkness

November 12, 2024
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Among Artistic Director Holly Druckman’s goals is to turn Cappella Clausura into a “very serious player in the Boston early-music-new music scene.”

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Book Review: “A Fan’s Life” — A Species of Madness?

November 16, 2022
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In A Fan’s Life, Paul Campos makes a valiant stab at reconciling his avowedly progressive views on American politics and iconoclastic intellectual pursuits with his lifelong obsession with spectator sports.

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Concert Review: Dead & Company’s “Final Tour” at Fenway — Into Uncharted Territory on Saturday

June 27, 2023
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There was nothing sloppy about the band’s searching and probing: the members of Dead & Company were perfectly locked into each other, were enjoying the musical exchanges being made in the moment.

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Film Review: “2nd Chance” – A Memorable American Con Artist

February 3, 2022
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With Richard Davis, director Ramin Bahrani found an old-fashioned fraud, a paunchy American grifter worthy of a story by Mark Twain.

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Book Review: “Free” — A Communist Childhood

May 18, 2022
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With gentle humor and insight, Lea Ypi draws rich portraits of the three caring adults she grew up with in the authoritarian world of her childhood in Albania.

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Music Interview: Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins on “Songs of the Recollection”

April 10, 2022
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“I may second guess how a song was recorded. But I can say that all that we have done has come from an honest place.”

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