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Visual Arts Review: “On This Ground” — Revisionist Art History

May 30, 2022
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It was particularly delicious to see George Washington get his comeuppance.

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Visual Arts Review: The Erratic Eroticism of Francesco Clemente’s “Encampment” at MASS MoCA

July 21, 2015
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It is a conundrum for the critic: is the crudeness of the rendering the result of an expressionist style or a lack of finesse or skill in rendering?

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Book Review: Colm Tóibin On Elizabeth Bishop

March 5, 2015
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In some essential and large way, novelist Colm Tóibin gets Elizabeth Bishop right.

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Book Review: A Critical Look at Barbra Streisand’s Career

June 29, 2019
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Ethan Mordden’s exhaustive take on Barbra Streisand may not be what diehard fans are looking for.

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Book Review: Jackson Lears’s “Animal Spirits” — A Chronicle of American Zing

June 9, 2023
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Historian Jackson Lears assembles sightings of a world that’s changeable, mutable, and filled with animalism, vitalism, or whatever else you want to call it. But what’s the point?

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Film Review: “Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time” — And Remember, Take Care of Yourself

August 19, 2021
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Evangelion is my personal Rosetta Stone, allowing me to decipher everything from psychoanalytic theory and gender relations to my very own understanding of trauma and the world in which I inhabit.

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Poetry Review: “Whale Fall” — The Dark at the Bottom of the Ocean

August 11, 2022
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It is dark, so very dark, at the ocean’s bottom. And yet, there is also a disquieting, wonder-filled magic in the child’s moon which hovers over these poems; an incantatory moon echoing like a lullaby, drawing on a time of innocence.

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Arts Commentary: Climate Crisis Cabaret — Marching Orders

March 12, 2025
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Why did I help organize the Climate Crisis Cabaret? Because these are not normal times. And we need more theater like it.

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Visual Arts Review: The Paintings of John Heliker — Ripe for Rediscovery

August 8, 2014
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John Heliker, by some alchemy that frankly baffles me, is able to give an evening quality to the light in scenes that are clearly taking place during the day.

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Author Interview: Clea Simon on Her Latest Mystery Novel — “Bad Boy Beat”

May 3, 2024
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Clea Simon’s latest mystery, “Bad Boy Beat,” features the memorable heroine Em Kelton, a tough Boston journalist who can mix with the hard-boiled reporters and hard-living cops on her beat — none of whom want to realize that she happens to be a brilliant detective.

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