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Book Review: “Anger and Forgiveness” — Curb Your Choler

May 11, 2016
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Although Anger and Forgiveness is a work of systematic philosophy it is also provocatively personal.

Theater Feature: Creating the Soundscape for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”

April 17, 2012
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Supplementing Eugene O’Neill’s high drama is a subtle score of music and sound created by Dewey Dellay, an Elliot Norton Award winner for Outstanding Design.

Visual Arts Review: Illustrations of Race at The Norman Rockwell Museum

August 30, 2022
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Norman Rockwell was troubled about race relations in American society, and he let his public know that..

Book Review: “Satori in Paris” — A Minor Work From an Undisputed Alpha Beat

October 16, 2023
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Jack Kerouac’s best work is often driven by a hunger for spiritual nourishment: the soul food his protagonists occasionally find in friendships, in jazz, in oceanic moments of oneness.

Book Review: A Troubling yet Timely Screed — America’s Debilitating “Meritocracy Trap”

August 15, 2020
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Though its prose veers into academic rough patches, the volume does what it sets out to do, brilliantly portraying how the delusive demon of meritocracy has led America into its current socioeconomic quagmire.

Film Commentary: Black Lives Matter, Cinematic Expressions

December 19, 2016
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One of the heartening trends in film during 2016 has been an increase in the number of quality films that focus on African-Americans.

Visual Arts Review: “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out” — An Exhibition Whose Time Has Passed

December 22, 2024
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Museum exhibitions take a long time to put together, and the circumstances that justify them at their inception sometimes evaporate by the time they appear.

Music Interview: YouTube Algorithm Causes Major Disruption to Jazz Video Guy, Bret Primack

February 18, 2023
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Bret Primack explains how YouTube has basically nuked the Jazz Video Guy channel. And the same thing is happening to other content creators.

Fuse Books: A Few Year End Literary Favorites

December 25, 2011
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As the year nears its end, time is running out to write at length about some of the new books that gave me pleasure. Thus this quick list of favorites. As usual, my taste runs to prose that’s off-the-beaten-path.

Book Review: “Books Promiscuously Read” — Playing in the Leaves

July 18, 2021
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Books Promiscuously Read sets a high standard for what might become an exciting new genre of literary criticism for educated general readers.

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