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CD Review: Leonard Cohen — Embracing the Darkness

October 30, 2016
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At 82, Cohen seems to feel that there isn’t a lot of time left and that he has nothing to prove to anyone.

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Music Feature: The Best Jazz Albums of 2024

December 23, 2024
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The magazine’s jazz critics look back over the past year and highlight their favorite albums.

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Film Review: “Best of Luck with the Wall” — Mapping How Lost We Are

January 18, 2019
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Josh Begley, in a mere six minutes, demonstrates how impossible the notion of a border wall is, from an engineering and construction perspective.

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Film Reviews: “Gasoline Rainbow” and “Happy Campers” — Superior Summer Flicks Tinged with Loss

June 24, 2024
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Two films about the glories of summer are infused with bittersweet reminders of the reality of social class in America.

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Musician Interview: “They drowned out the roaring sea ” — Swanky Kitchen Band Brings the Sounds of the Cayman Islands to the Lowell Folk Festival

July 23, 2024
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Swanky Kitchen Band is single-handedly carrying on the venerable, but little known, Afro/Celtic/Caribbean tradition of fiddle-led dance bands in the Cayman Islands.

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Author Interview: A Mindset at the Crossroads of the Teutonic and the Semitic — A Conversation with Writer-Translator Peter Wortsman

August 14, 2024
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A translator must meet a compelling need — to reinvent Franz Kafka’s voice in an English that resounds in the present moment.

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Rock Remembrance: Guitarist Jeff Beck

January 13, 2023
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Jeff Beck didn’t play the fastest runs but wielded dynamic emotion in every deftly spaced note – and didn’t even use a pick.

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Visual Arts Feature: A Walk in the City — Seeing Architectural Details and History in a Time of Covid-19

April 25, 2020
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Ironically, sheltering at home reminds us that walking through some neighborhoods in Boston is an aesthetically enriching experience.

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Book Review: “Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry” — Into a New Clearing

February 18, 2025
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Besides giving us a multi-faceted portrait of Robert Frost that leaves the poet tantalizingly inscrutable, Adam Plunkett does what the best biographers of great writers do: send us back to the work with renewed curiosity and heightened appreciation.

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Theater Review: “And No More Shall We Part” — Facing Mortality

August 14, 2016
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This is a beautifully acted but grim 70 minutes of theater, a no-frills look at the dynamics of a struggle about life and death.

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