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Poetry Review: The Sensationally Intense Music of Marina Tsvetaeva

November 7, 2026
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In “Vega’s Fugitive,” translator Alyssa Dinega Gillespie brings the Russian poet’s fierce sound and emotional intensity into English.

Book Review: Marina Abramović — The Art of Remembering

November 2, 2026
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In “Long Life, Short Stories,” Marina Abramović turns memories, images, and personal histories into an exploration of identity—and of how a life becomes art.

Book Review: The Swallows Are Watching — Radka Denemarková’s Dark, Restless “A Contribution to the History of Joy”

October 18, 2026
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In this ambitious Czech novel, a detective’s inquiry into an apparent suicide becomes a meditation on violence against women, historical memory, and the possibility of joy.

Boston Noir: A Grimy Ride Through the Dark Side of Beantown

January 15, 2010
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This enjoyable anthology of crime stories proffers a grimy ride through the murderous and creepy side of Beantown. Boston Noir, edited by Dennis Lehane. Akashic Books, $15.95 Reviewed by Kate Vander Wiede In the introduction of Boston Noir, editor, contributor. and best-selling novelist Dennis Lehane explains that while Aristotle “mandated that a tragic hero must…

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