Written in graceful, unobtrusive prose, ‘Someday This Will Fit: Linked Essays, Meditations & Other Midlife Follies’ tackles chocolate-covered strawberries, home repair – and the loss of a parent.
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Concert review: PSO, guest conductor earn standing ovation for 20th century sampling
But a piano concerto highlights Merrill Auditorium’s need for a new instrument.
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Movie review: Harley Quinn and her girl gang are lovable psychopaths in ‘Birds of Prey’
The best thing to come out of 2016’s much-derided DC antihero team-up “Suicide Squad” was Margot Robbie’s inspired take on Harley Quinn, the self-proclaimed “Joker’s girl” and quirky chaos clown. Robbie’s Quinn, with her colorful pigtails and baseball bat, instantly became an icon, a perennial Halloween costume, eclipsing even her lesser half, Jared Leto’s heavily […]
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Theater review: Defiance central theme in run of plays by women, non-binary writers in Portland
The Polyphonic Theatre Ensemble’s ‘Symphony of New Works 2020’ makes the case for the power of theater to creatively reveal sometimes difficult truths.
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New England has its own unsavory links to the slave trade
‘Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England’ details a legacy that many in the region would probably like to forget.
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Choosing a leader was no easier 400 years ago
Arthur Phillips’ engaging “The King at the Edge of the World” is set in the tense court of Queen Elizabeth I, as she lays dying and her couriers jockey to determine a successor.
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Review: ‘Gretel & Hansel’ is a real horror(ible) movie
There’s Grimm, and there’s grim.
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Theater review: ‘The 39 Steps’ brings a sense of theater magic in Brunswick
The Theater Project’s take on this affectionate parody of classic thrillers provides a perfect vehicle for audiences to forget all their troubles and get happy.
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Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’ brilliantly skewers Hollywood typecasting
Written in the form of a screenplay, the novel stars Generic Asian Man, who is stuck playing Background Oriental Male.
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A suicide in a fictional small Maine town is more than it seems
In ‘The Last House Guest,’ protagonist Avery Greer struggles to understand the death of her best friend, but the many turns in this thriller keep her and the reader guessing.