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Iraq

Film Review: “Nowhere to Hide” — A Potent Documentary about the Never-ending War in Iraq

How palpable is the combat in Nowhere to Hide!

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: documentary, Iraq, museum-of-fine-arts-boston, Nori Sharif, Nowhere to Hide

Theater Review: Happy Medium Theatre’s “Dying City” — Inventive Intimacy

Happy Medium Theatre’s powerful production is a testament to how the artists in our area are triumphing over the economic adversity.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: 9/11, Christopher Shinn, Dying City, Happy Medium Theatre, Iraq, Kiki Samko, Michael Underwood

Fuse Review: Company One Exhibits a Ferociously Good “Bengal Tiger”

“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is hard to categorize. It is both funny and dead serious, not exactly a black comedy but an idiosyncratic composite of many different dramatic antecedents.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Company One, Culture Vulture, Iraq, Rajiv Joseph, Rick Park, Shawn LaCount

The Collective Stupidity: The X-Box War

by Peter Walsh “Collective intelligence has no relationship to the stupidity of crowd behavior.” — Pierre Lévy, The Collective Intelligence The day before the New Hampshire primary, I went with a friend to hear George Packer, author of The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq, speak at Dartmouth College. I knew George twenty years ago, when […]

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: betrayed, Books, George-Packer, Iraq, New-Yorker, peter-Walsh, The-assassins-Gate:-America-in-Iraq, The-Collective-Stupidity

Theater Commentary: Who’s Afraid of the Antiwar Play?

by Bill Marx What particularly disappointed Boston Globe theater critic Louise Kennedy about the Huntington Theatre Company’s recent production of David Rabe’s Streamers was that it lacked the emotional impact of the 1976 staging of the script. She found it “painful because that earlier production clearly resonated with its audiences as a powerful antiwar statement, […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: antiwar, antiwar-play, Boots-on-the-Ground, David-Rabe, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Iraq, Louise-kennedy, Persona Non Grata, political-theatre, Streamers, Theater, war-and-peace, women-of-troy

The Art of Being Eternally Hillary

The NY Times is running a series of articles about front-runners for the presidency. I’ve read the two about Hillary Clinton carefully, because I’m stuck about her. She’s someone I’d like to feel enthusiastic about but can’t. She always, to my mind, testifies strongly at first, then cancels herself out. She’s an enigma wrapped inside […]

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Books, Hillary-Clinton, Iraq, Short Fuse, Vietnam, William-Jefferson-Clinton

Liberal Hawks and Paleo-Raptors

Two books by left-wing pundits grapple with why they supported the Bush Administration’s invasion of Iraq. “The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq” by George Packer. (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) “Power and the Idealists: Or, The Passion of Joschka Fischer and its Aftermath” by Paul Berman. (Soft Skull Press) By Harvey Blume The inescapable question for […]

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books Tagged: George-Packer, Iraq, Paul-Berman, War

Target: The White House

Nicholson Baker’s new novel is about a man obsessed with killing President Bush.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Checkpoint, Iraq, Short Fuse

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