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Are visitors supposed to feel some sort of guilty pleasure if they find Mary Ann Unger’s Across the Bering Strait powerfully mesmeric?
Read MoreWild Williams is a marvelous antidote for the formulaic.
Read MoreBy Bill Marx The war over critics-as-bullies is over, but some diehards keep fighting the same old battles to the point of arthritic absurdity, like Lee Marvin and Toshirô Mifune as old and forgotten American and Japanese veterans of WWII slugging it out in the 1968 movie Hell in the Pacific.The latest retread salvo comes…
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
Read MoreMore comments on the movies in this year’s Boston Jewish Film Festival, including “Standing Silent,” a powerful documentary on child abuse in the orthodox Jewish community and an effective adaptation of David Grossman’s novel “The Book of Intimate Grammar.”
Read MoreChef Jake Bickelhaupt’s passion for cooking and for doing everything himself is the driving idea behind this high-energy documentary.
Read MoreElegantly written, cogently argued, and filled with trenchant artistic analyses, Alexander Marr’s book exemplifies interdisciplinary studies at their best.
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Perhaps we need to call on Sherlock Holmes in order to resolve the 31-year old “no end in sight” Gardner heist?
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If this collection has one failing, it is its attempt to make Flannery O’Connor into something she was not: “woke.”
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Arts Commentary: We Will Have to Eat Our Spinach — And Like It
Given that the Climate Emergency will grow more challenging over time, we (including literary novelists) shouldn’t be so cavalier about not eating our spinach.
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