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Film Review: "American Fiction" -- Pinned Down by Blackness
20+ hour, 36+ min ago —...Screening at the Brattle Theatre on December 13 and at Coolidge Corner... ...Percival Everett, author of 22 books and an English professor at... ...Gerald Peary is a Professor Emeritus at Suffolk University, Boston... ...; ex-curator of the Boston University Cinematheque; and the general...

Book Reviews: Peter Stamm's "The Archive of Feelings" and Bernhard Schlink's "The Grandaughter"
1+ day ago —...(Diogenes Verlag, Switzerland, 368 pages, 2021).... ...The Archive of Feelings by Peter Stamm.... ...Our second old man, in Bernhard Schlink’s Die Enkelin, is Kaspar.... ...Michael Hoffmann comes close to being German-English translator royalty...

Jazz Concert Review: "Samara Joy: A Joyful Holiday" -- A Prodigious Joy
1+ day ago —..., Texas, Bass Concert Hall, December 3, 2023 I thought I knew what... ...Samara Joy, “A Joyful Holiday, Featuring the McLendon Family” Austin... ...The University of Texas at Austin’s expansive Bass Concert Hall,... ...McLendon, her uncle Laurone McLendon, and her cousins Tiera Lovell...

Dance Review: Continuum Dance Project's “Not Eye, Us” -- A Call for Community
2+ day ago —...The distinction between performer and viewer remains blurred throughout... ...In another, Adrienne Brayton escorts Sarah Pacheco around the inside... ...Thea Singer is a longtime dance critic and science writer based in...

Visual Arts Review: "Fashioned by Sargent" -- Round Two
2+ day ago —...Was John Singer Sargent just a talented flatterer of his wealthy... ...Fashioned by Sargent, currently at the Museum of the Fine Arts through... ...from critic and artist Mary Sherman. -- Editor Bill Marx So I have... ...Michelangelo, Bronzino, the Carracci brothers, Guido Reni....

Television Review: "We Live Here: The Midwest" -- Family Matters
3+ day ago —...America has yo-yoed throughout American history, and since 2016 the... ...Documentarians Melinda Maerker and David Clayton Miller were particularly... ...Sarah Mina Osman is a writer residing in Wilmington, NC....

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse
3+ day ago —...Dos Madres Press, 2019), and Loom (MadHat Press, 2016).... ...Kevin Gallagher is a poet, publisher, and political economist living...

Film Review: Quality Time in French Foodie Heaven
4+ day ago —...Menus-Plaisirs-Les Troisgros, directed by Frederick Wiseman.... ...Menus-Plaisirs-Les Troisgros.... ...I was superbly entertained for all four hours of Menus-Plaisirs-Les... ...’s screen time is spent at the flagship La Maison Troisgros....

Children's Book Review: Jews in America -- From North Dakota to the Lower East Side
4+ day ago —...Union Square Kids, 2023. Rivka Presents by Laurie Wallmark.... ...Images by Adelina Lirius. Random House, 2023.... ..., Libke, Pearlie, and Tsivia, leave Ukraine (then part of the Russian... ...Empire) to join their father and brother in North Dakota....

Poetry Review: Christian Wiman's "Zero at the Bone" -- A Bulwark Against Despair
5+ day ago —...Wiman. Farrar... ...Christian Wiman’s new book takes readers on an exhilarating, confounding... ...This unnerving tension is beautifully described in Yehuda Amichai... ...Wiman (and Amichai) contend that it is only through humility, shaped...