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Film News: Global Lens 2013 — Focusing on Relatively Undiscovered Countries

June 7, 2013
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We’ve reached a sad situation in America where even sophisticated art house audiences balk at foreign-language films except those made in a handful of favored countries.

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Theater Review: “The Convert” — A Zimbabwean Tragedy

February 6, 2016
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The Convert is a complex historical drama that shows us individuals crushed among powerful contradictions.

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Book Review: At the Opaque Heart of Life — The Short Stories of Sait Faik

February 27, 2015
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Sometimes called the “Turkish Balzac” and, more often, the “Turkish Chekhov,” Sait Faik actually had a literary vision all his own.

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Film Review: “Showing Up” — A Gentle Portrait of a Portland Artist

April 13, 2023
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Showing Up offers a much different kind of artist and art scene than we’re used to seeing in film.

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February Short Fuses — Materia Critica

February 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.

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Literary Appreciation: Grace Paley and the Swiveling Light of Truth

December 13, 2022
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An homage to Grace Paley, one of the great American writers of the 20th century.

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Poetry Review: A “Memorial” Written in a Voice That Does Not Break

September 23, 2012
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Alice Oswald’s “Memorial” begins with a list of 214 names, a bare, sorrowful cousin to the ship’s roll. If you know the old stories, you’ll begin to recognize some names, and then start to look forward to others.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

March 15, 2015
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, music, dance, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Visual Arts Commentary: Expanding Abstraction — What’s So Narrow About That?

July 13, 2017
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Expanding Abstraction is a success because it does what it set out to do: to highlight the visions of New England’s female abstract painters.

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Poetry Review: “If Men, Then” — Verse on Present Day Firing Lines

November 17, 2019
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Because Eliza Griswold’s poems often take place in war zones, she’s always provocative — even when she is tendentious.

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