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Theater Review: Annie Baker’s “John” — A Feminist Black Comedy

August 9, 2015
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Baker’s John is a haunting feminist drama about women and madness.

Visual Arts Review: Junk Yard Kids — Consecrating American Anti-Culture

December 12, 2016
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Could there be a better place to satirize American taste than in the center of Boston’s thriving commercial district?

Poetry Review: Hannah Sullivan’s “Was It For This” — The Harsh Reality of Our Transience

January 24, 2023
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The structure, plot, themes, tone, and diction of Was It For This all combine to consecrate the ordinary alongside the exceptional.

Book Review: The Fascinating Story of “The Method”

May 8, 2022
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Isaac Butler’s stories about The Method’s effect on American film acting are insightful, particularly when he recounts how actors could be either inspired or angered when they embraced it.

Television Review: “Aaron Rodgers: Enigma” — An Abstruse Athlete

January 19, 2025
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“Enigma” is as unlike the standard sports documentary as a Cybertruck is to a F-150.

Visual Art Review: A Pair of Drawing Shows at the Harvard Art Museums

June 9, 2016
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Rembrandt’s casual scratches snap into recognizability with the surprise of stage magic. But there’s no trick, it’s the genuine miracle of talent.

Film Review: “Democracy Through the Looking Glass” — Take a Good Look

July 9, 2017
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The interviewees sound warnings about how we have self-sorted, online and in the real world, into echo-chamber communities of like-minded people.

Film Review: Horror Documenary“Pieces” is DOA

October 23, 2006
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By Jard Craig Going to Pieces, a new made-for-cable documentary (which airs this Halloween on Starz at 11 p.m.), charts the history of slasher films. The film starts off strong, but falls apart once the initial shock value of cinematic cut-and-slash overkill wears off. The film strings together the best scenes from new and classic…

Visual Arts Commentary: The Shock of the Cute — Too Much of a Cute Thing?

April 15, 2020
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What gives with the overbearing presence of cuteness throughout the world of contemporary visual art?

Film Review: “Portrait of Wally” — Art As ‘Holocaust Loot’

June 26, 2012
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“Portrait of Wally” makes for a wonderfully engaging documentary about art and postwar intrigue with stakes on both a personal and global scale.

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