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Arts Interview with Peter Wortsman: The German Imagination of Fear

March 29, 2013
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“There is a difference between blood and guts, as celebrated in the current vogue of horror-slasher flicks, and the capacity of the darkest of the Grimms’ tales to pierce the thin skin of civility and mainline the dark caverns of the collective unconscious.”

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Book Review: “The Sweetest Fruits” — Stories in Order to Live

September 18, 2019
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Reading The Sweetest Fruits is like looking at the back of an oriental rug in which the pattern is rather more indistinct than the front but the colors much richer and more vivid.

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Book Interview: S.T. Joshi on Ambrose Bierce — The Underappreciated Genius of Being Grim

January 24, 2012
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Bierce proffers a satiric temperament gone wild and woolly, partly propelled by a revulsion at the criminal vulgarity of the Gilded Age. Given the current triumph of the 1%, his fury at power mad corporations is worth an admiring look.

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Television Review: The Docuseries “Trial 4” — Boston Crime and Questionable Punishment

May 12, 2025
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“Trial 4,” along with other currently streaming crime docuseries, examines the systemic biases, misuse of official force, and internal corruption that impede and subvert justice, undermine convictions, undercut integrity, and erode public trust.

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Rock Interview: Rod Argent — Keeping the Zombies Alive

September 30, 2015
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Rod Argent of the Zombies on the second incarnation of psychedelia.

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Book Review: Roving Free Agents of the Imagination

February 25, 2013
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Autobiography, personal essay, history, current affairs, or literary criticism, many are the guises under which travel writing has seduced readers of decidedly categorical bent.

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Theater Review: “The Children” — After the Damage Has Been Done

March 3, 2020
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An apocalyptic backdrop gives the play urgency, especially given the current worldwide struggle to contain the Corvid-19 virus, which has already claimed thousands of lives.

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Poetry Review: Lyrical Outrage — Songs of the Resistance

April 30, 2017
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Many of the poems live up to the title’s shout-out to Walt Whitman, cutting through the current political miasma with fresh wit, insight, and lyrical outrage.

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Book Interview: Robert W. Fieseler on the legacy of the “Tinderbox”

October 13, 2018
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One of the few books that examine the largest mass killing of gays and lesbians in the United States until the 2016 massacre at Pulse.

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Theater Review: “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” — Honoring a Sacred Space for Black Women

May 15, 2025
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The beauty of “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” at this political moment is that it provides a firsthand rebuttal to the current administration’s draconian policies  — without ever directly acknowledging them.

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