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Film Review: Frederick Wiseman’s “City Hall” — A Kinder, Gentler Government?

October 30, 2020
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City Hall is a quiet, unsentimental celebration of civility in its many forms.

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Visual Arts Interview: Doug Weathersby — Making Art Out of Work

January 28, 2017
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Among other things, we talked about the art world’s massive hoarding problem.

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Film Review: “The Beguiled” — Sofia Coppola’s Bewitching, Beleaguered Remake

July 2, 2017
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The Beguiled is a beautifully-shot, atmospheric thriller with a daring take on sexual autonomy and dynamics.

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Theater Review: Beached in the Living Room — “The Whale”

March 19, 2014
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Unlike much of what comes through the new play development pipeline, “The Whale” proffers a coherent narrative structure — the result is a well-crafted, somewhat edgy, domestic tragedy.

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Book Review: Herbert Huncke — The “American Hipster” Who Influenced The Beat Movement

September 11, 2013
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Hilary Holladay’s biography of Herbert Huncke provides valuable insight into a person and world that were begging to be explored.

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Book Review: A Provocative Memoir about Growing up Gay in Japan

February 20, 2013
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American readers will be intrigued by a language for sexuality that is plain but understated, neither vulgar nor coy.

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Author Interview: Scholar Avner Ben-Zaken — Crafting a Unified History of Science

August 10, 2013
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Intellectual frameworks such as “the rise of Europe,” “the decline of the East,” or “the clash of civilizations,” tell us more about the laziness of the human mind than they do about history.

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Book Interview: Literary Crusaders of The Gilded Age —Tackling the Great American Railroad

September 6, 2012
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“The Great American Railroad War” reminds us of an inspired journalistic reaction to the crimes of an earlier age of robber baron.

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Theater Feature: Enter Israeli Stage

October 20, 2011
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Exciting things are happening in Israeli writing, and it is garnering considerable attention in Europe. But what about theater in Israel? Israeli Stage offers the curious a chance to see what is happening.

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Concert Review: Tanglewood’s 75th Birthday Shindig — Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Guests

July 16, 2012
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After several years of frustrating cancellations and artistic challenges, Tanglewood and the Boston Symphony Orchestra seemed to be saying that there’s still much to celebrate. And they were right.

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