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I heartily recommend M.M. Blume’s excellent Fallout, which ably synthesizes large amounts of archival, historical, and biographical material from three continents.
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Belfast is overly sentimental and drenched if not drowned in nostalgia, but it’s also very sweet, uplifting, well-paced, beautifully shot, and competently assembled.
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“Master Lovers” is written in a lucid, personable style, and the fictional scenes — David Winner’s recreations of history and imagined trysts — are deft, believable, and vividly imagined.
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The 2025 Oscar nominated documentary shorts indict the justice system.
Read MoreXavier Giannoli’s Marguerite is a wonderful study of delusion and illusion, the deceptive power of love and faith.
Read MoreThe Emerson String Quartet and Renée Fleming team up for one of the finest recordings of the year.
Read MoreFew people are familiar with the achievement of nineteenth century African-American Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge.
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These are not persuasive essays; rather, they are thought-provoking juxtapositions of facts, observations, and speculations — with a teleology.
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The Rabbis Go South tells the story of a little-known episode in the fight for desegregation: 16 rabbis were invited by Martin Luther King to be part of the 1964 civil rights march in St. Augustine, Florida.
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The book’s conceit is that D.A. Miller watches films he’s seen earlier in life with enhanced perception because of the possibilities offered him through the DVD lens.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025