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Book Review: Sanford Friedman’s Utterly Original “Conversations with Beethoven”

October 2, 2014
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How well Conversations with Beethoven works as fiction will depend on the engagement and imaginative powers of the reader.

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Music Interview: Juliana Hatfield Talks About “Blood”

May 14, 2021
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In her new album, Juliana Hatfield’s concerns are comeuppance, self-abasement, and the depravity of those who revel in the power to make decisions that can adversely affect others.

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Book Review: “Revive Us Again” — Rev. Dr. William Barber II’s Quest to Revive Compassion

December 24, 2018
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Rev William Barber II has effectively demonstrated again and again what he often calls “fusion politics” across lines of race, age, and religion.

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Book Review: “The Teeth of the Comb” — Brusque Tales of Rebellion

April 17, 2017
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These tales have an incendiary energy, but Osama Alomar handles his narrative explosives with restraint, wisdom, care, and precision.

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Theater Review: “Smart People” — A Sharp Satire of a “Post-Racial” World

June 9, 2014
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Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People is an amusing takedown of our “post-racial” world, and it is receiving a snappy, well-acted production via the Huntington Theatre Company.

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Theater Commentary/Review: On American Stages — No Politics, Please

March 14, 2015
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In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.

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Visual Arts: Stunning “Intersections” at Peabody Essex Museum

February 25, 2016
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In a period of radicalism and terrorism, this installation serves as a beacon for remembering the beauty of the best of Islamic creative culture.

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Theater Review: “K-I-S-S-I-N-G” – A Refreshing Reflection on Black Love  

March 29, 2023
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The theme may be Black love, but the dramatist is too smart not to invite all of us to consider (or perhaps even reconsider) our personal definitions of what love means and how that changes the ways we relate to each other.

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Book Review: “The Ash Family” — A Commune or a Cult?

March 24, 2019
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The Ash Family is a full-color illustration of how the modern world leaves people vulnerable to radical ideas.

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Book Review: “The War of Art” — Waging Creative Defiance

June 19, 2025
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The book provides ample proof that activist artists, when determined, can use their work to influence our thinking in positive ways, and effect change.

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