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Book Review: A Sane Sense of a Warped World

April 26, 2009
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By Anna Razumnaya An erudite, absorbing, and often very funny account of Russia’s pathological inability to condemn the Communist Party. Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia, by Jonathan Brent. Atlas & Co. Publishers, 335 pages A certain jealous vigilance is to be expected when a Russian reads a book about Russia written by…

WATCH CLOSELY: PBS’ “Jamestown” — Glossy Heritage TV

June 21, 2019
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Jamestown is a vividly timely reminder that anyone who calls themselves an “American” is actually descended from immigrants.

Theater Review: Machine de Cirque — A Captivating Contraption

September 23, 2016
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Yes, another circus show has come to town with players who display breath-taking athleticism in all its cheeky glory.

Book Review: “The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar” — A Formalist Critic’s Picaresque Novel

March 25, 2021
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A new complete translation of the most accomplished novel by Yury Tynyanov, an innovative Russian man of letters during the experimental 1920s.

Visual Arts Review: “Chasing Rembrandt” — The Hunt Continues?

May 11, 2023
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Chasing Rembrandt is a small show, probably quickly assembled to complement the TheaterWorks production. For curious viewers, though, it raises a number of provocative questions.

Poetry Review: Ruth Lepson’s “on the way” — Basking in the Glow

October 28, 2021
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Ruth Lepson’s poetry, at its most successful, creates the evocative and stimulating effect of a koan.

Music and Concert Favorites 2019

December 22, 2019
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Our expert music critics serve up their usual highly eclectic round-up of the year’s most memorable.

Book Review: ‘Chuck Close: Life’ ignores the Big Questions

June 15, 2010
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The narrative turns out to have the blandly cheerful tone and slightly stilted prose of an official biography: the sort of thing with the CEO’s picture on the cover, given out at stockholders meetings. Chuck Close: Life, by Christopher Finch. Prestel, 352 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Peter Walsh In these media-saturated, image-obsessed times, every public…

Book Review: “My Marriage” — An Extraordinary Rediscovery

August 12, 2016
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Despite the pain of inhabiting Alexander Herzog’s disintegrating world, I absolutely could not put My Marriage aside.

Film Review: “Don’t Worry Darling” — Land of the Living Dolls

September 19, 2022
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As a satire on the power of male-dominated corporations to manufacture consent and conformity, Don’t Worry Darling is devilishly amusing. Though credibility is not its strong suit.

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