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Doc Talk: A World of Dew — Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston

May 15, 2025
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At the Global Cinema Film Festival, some look for love and life in all the wrong places.

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Book Review: “Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer” — Sort of a Shaman

June 22, 2023
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Betye Saar’s assemblages and travel sketchbooks are rich in references and symbols; they are mysterious and introspective, more spiritual than political.

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Opera Review: “Iris,” A Powerful Vision of an Imaginary Japan — Six Years Before “Madama Butterfly”

February 14, 2022
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The composer of Cavalleria rusticana brought his sense for characterization and drama to the all-too-plausible tale of a woman victimized by a cad.

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Jazz Album Reviews: A Trio of Recordings That Put String Quartets in Jazzy Settings

January 9, 2022
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The rewards of these and other recordings provide ample proof that, with its shape-shifting qualities, the string quartet will continue to be a powerful asset for talented jazz composers.

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Theater Review: “Kimberly Akimbo” Is Heart-Rending and Life-Affirming  

January 5, 2022
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The new musical by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire is a show that everyone who believes in the artistic future and emotional power of the American musical will want to see.

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Arts Review: “Bad Blood” and “The Dropout” — Valley Girl Set Aflame in the Bonfires of the Vanities

March 19, 2022
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Playing on their strengths and working within the limitations of each medium, both The Dropout and Bad Blood pull us into the very American story of Theranos’ and Holmes’ rise and fall.

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Book Reviews: “Grey Bees” and “Lucky Breaks” — Civilian Life in Wartime Ukraine

September 1, 2022
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Neither book is primarily directly about the war itself. Rather, in sometimes oblique ways, they show the price paid by Ukraine’s non-combatant civilians.

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Book Review: “American Radicals” — Unrecognized Champions of 19th-Century Protest

July 9, 2020
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American Radicals is as revealing, riveting, and well-researched as any work of history that I have read in recent years.

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Opera CD Review: A Tenor as a Villain? Donizetti’s Unusual Two-Tenor Opera Gets a First — and Fine — Recording

April 1, 2020
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An 1829 opera about Elizabeth I and her supposed lover — enlivened by underhanded threats, virtuous resistance, remorse, and an attempted poisoning — proves well worth reviving.

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Book Review: “Debriefing the President” — Ignorance is Tragedy

July 8, 2017
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So now you know: Saddam’s fearsome weapon of mass destruction was a novel.

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