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Book Review: Admiring Anne Enright’s “The Green Road”

Anne Enright’s prose, especially when she is firmly rooted in Ireland, sings; she has the ability to get the details both of setting and character, and a wonderful ear.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anne Enright, contemporary, Irish fiction, The Green Road

Commentary/CD Reviews: Recent Symphonic Recordings From Boston Orchestras

A series of new and recent recordings by Boston orchestras demonstrate that, in the right hands, symphonic music since 1945 remains alive and well, still powerful, fresh, and vibrant.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: American, Andrew Norman, BMOP, BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Symphony Orchestra, contemporary, Gil-Rose, Irving-Fine, James Levine, John Harbison, Play, Symphonies, Symphony, Try

Book Review: The Unwavering Gaze — Fabritius and Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch”

In Donna Tartt’s much-lauded third novel, Fabritius’ painting “The Goldfinch” and the fleeting nature of, well, everything comes together for a brief and shining moment.

By: Clea Simon Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Clea Simon, contemporary, Donna Tartt, Fabritius, fiction, Frick Museum, Portrait of an Old Man, Rembrandt, The Goldfinch

Fuse Book Review: “The Translator” — A Bumpy Quest Novel

Nina Schuyler’s uneven novel raises some interesting questions in the course of the protagonist’s quest, and there are many fascinating details about Japan and Noh plays and the power of silence.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: contemporary, fiction, Nina Schuyler, The Translator

Book Review: “The Woman Who Lost Her Soul” — A Lengthy Tale of Innocence Betrayed

Despite his weakness for overwriting, Bob Shacochis has a good and sad story to tell, and he gets through it with a degree of mastery.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: American, Bob Shacochis, contemporary, fiction, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

Book Review: “When the Night” — A Memorably Icy Love Story

In spare, exact prose Cristian Comencini lets this story unfold against an Alpine setting that is so vivid it, too, becomes a character in this strangely compelling novel.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: contemporary, Cristina Comencini, fiction, Italian, Italy, Other Press, When the Night

Book Review: “Jane Eyre” Rewired — “The Flight of Gemma Hardy”

Author Margo Livesey has pulled off a considerable literary trick: a page-turner that is also a moving, realistic, subtle, and eminently wise coming-of-age novel.

By: Eric Grunwald Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: contemporary, fiction, Jane Eyre, Margo Livesey, The Flight of Gemma Hardy

Book Review: The Woman Who Killed Princess Diana?

Perhaps the novel is not the most original read, but AN ACCIDENT IN AUGUST contributes to the growing number of literary meditations on the evolving pathology of celebrity,

By: Liza Katz Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: An Accident in August, contemporary, French literature, Laurence Cossé, Princess Di, Princess Diana

Film Review: Should We Fear Miranda July’s “Future”?

THE FUTURE, director/actor Miranda July’s followup to 2005’s ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW is brave, unexpectedly poignant and devastatingly sad.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: American, Boho, contemporary, Film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July, THE FUTURE

Poetry Review: Daniel Borzutzky — Killing From Too Great A Distance

There is no question that somewhere in this collection poet Daniel Borztuzky is drawing a parallel between bureaucrats and terrorists, between politicians and increasingly dehumanized societies—both in America and abroad—but the connections are like underground cables: I can only guess at where I might dig to uncover them.

By: Vincent Czyz Filed Under: Books, World Books Tagged: contemporary, Daniel Borzutzky, Nightboat Books, Poetry, The Book of Interfering Bodies, The Ecstasy of Capitulation

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