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Poetry Review: Travel Down “The Golden Road”

June 5, 2013
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Rachel Hadas’ poems present deceptively calm surfaces, like a lake that hides its rich inner life beneath bright reflections of clouds and blue sky.

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Album Review: Coldplay’s “Ghost Stories” — Going Through a Rough Patch

May 25, 2014
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Coldplay’s “Ghost Stories” is not a fun or a happy listen, but it is a worthwhile one.

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Concert Review: The Pixies at the Orpheum

January 19, 2014
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The past weekend’s Orpheum show — sold out for weeks beforehand, and drawing an impressive range of multi-generational hipsters — wasn’t the same old thing for The Pixies.

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Coming Attractions in Underground Music: April 2011

January 26, 2011
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April brings lifted spirits, the Together Electronic Music Festival and psychedelia. The Deep Heaven Now Festival features psych, ambient and shoegaze music. The Together Music Festival has a heavy lineup full of dance and electronic music.

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Book Review: Nicole Krauss’ “To Be a Man” — A Virtuoso Performance

December 1, 2020
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Nicole Krauss’ new book of short stories generates a curious, understated, but genuinely transporting spirit, pretty much throughout.

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Film Preview: The Brattle Theatre Presents All Tilda Swinton, All the Time

September 14, 2017
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Just about every night at the Brattle through September 23 is Tilda Swinton night. What’s not be thrilled about?

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Jazz Preview, September—December 2018: An Embarrassment of Riches

September 16, 2018
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Is this lineup of jazz performances richer and more mouth-watering than we’ve seen in many a year? Yep.

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Concert Preview: Cowboy Junkies — On This Tour, Looking Back With Pleasure

September 20, 2025
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Cowboy Junkies has simply been too busy to wallow in the past, which has meant a lot of great songs have been untouched in concert.

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Concert Review: An Embarrassment of Vocal Riches — Blue Heron and The Tallis Scholars

April 4, 2012
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It was, for this listener, an embarrassment of riches, even in this early music town. Both groups gave excellent performances of music written at approximately the same time.

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Book Review: “Unit 29” — The Voices of the Incarcerated

December 19, 2024
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An argument for this collection might be that anything anyone writes from prison should be published, since whatever it is, it will inform readers regarding the grim circumstances about two million of our fellow citizens endure everyday, day after day.

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