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Book Review: Charlotte Roche’s”Wetlands” — Ick. Just Ick.

April 23, 2009
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Charlotte Roche is one of the most famous authors in Germany. Thomas Mann must be spinning in his grave. Wetlands By Charlotte Roche. Translated from the German by Tim Mohr. Grove Press, 240 pages. By Tommy Wallach On the subject of literary criticism, Martin Amis has written that “quotation is the reviewer’s only hard evidence.”…

June Short Fuses — Materia Critica

June 1, 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.

Book Review: “What Strange Paradise” — Unforgettable

October 23, 2021
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Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.

Book Review: “The World Republic of Letters” — A Literary Demolition Derby

August 12, 2005
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An intriguingly speculative study argues that the history of world literature boils down to a power struggle between outsiders and insiders.

Poetry Review: Iman Mersal’s “Threshold” — Exploring the Idea of Home

November 20, 2022
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Underlying all of these pieces is the sensibility of the émigrée, the person who has had to reinterpret everything in her life.

Fuse Dance Review: PERFORMANCE — A Parade of Passersby

January 27, 2014
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No amount of postmodern theory can paper over the fact that a half-baked cake, even one made with tasty ingredients, fails to satisfy.

Film Preview: Independent Film Festival Boston — Two By Two

April 30, 2024
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Want to see some excellent new films? How about in pairs?

Poetry Review: “Outside” — Poetry and Prose of French Writer André du Bouchet.

July 5, 2020
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Take the poems slowly, enjoy the Cage-y silences, the concentrated words as they appear.

Film Review: Geek Out in “Moonage Daydream.” Oh, Yeah!

September 15, 2022
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A new documentary artfully and excitingly suggests what made David Bowie tick.

Television Review: “Schmigadoon!” — Sending Up the Great White Way

July 8, 2021
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Schmigadoon! is both an enjoyable love letter to classic Broadway musicals and a good-natured spoof of their now antique conventions.

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