Rylance’s portrayal of a slyly meticulous tailor dominates this suspenseful story set in 1956.
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Art review: Amid a sea of text, find figures who faced demons inside and out
Lesley Dill uses words, illustrations and sculptures to share stories of early America at the Bates College Museum of Art.
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Review: In the last book of the Gwendy trilogy, Stephen King’s likeable heroine faces ‘apocalyptic evil’
As with the other books in the series, King has collaborated with publisher Richard Chizmar.
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Frank Bruni’s memoir offers a playbook on finding silver linings
Bruni woke up one day without vision in his right eye. As scary as that was, he writes in his memoir ‘The Beauty of Dusk,’ it also showed him the upside of vulnerability.
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Gladys Knight gives stirring performance at appearance in Portland
In a 90-minute concert at Merrill Auditorium, the 77-year-old singer proved that she can still sell a song through distinctive phrasing and a powerful delivery.
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Theater review: An almost-30-year-old struggles while his friends make marriage plans
‘Significant Other’ is now playing at Good Theater.
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Theater review: Societal ills linger as ‘Last Ship’ takes off from Earth
The dark comedy is in its world premiere production at Portland Stage.
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Karen Cheung’s ‘The Impossible City’ is a tribute to Hong Kong’s vanishing way of life
Cheung introduces readers to an array of characters and tackles themes such as belonging, postcolonial identity and the meaning of home in a nearly uninhabitable city.
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Book review: Poems and prints commune in ‘What Rough Beasts’
Leslie Moore mediates on the natural world and what it has to teach us.
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This year’s Oscar-nominated shorts are long on dark material
The Academy Award-nominated short films are sometimes dismissed as the Raisinets of the Oscars: bite-sized portions of cinematic sweetness, with only nominal nutritional value. The reality is quite different. Despite films that do, sometimes, hew to the gently inspirational and uplifting, particularly in the category of animation, which Pixar has historically dominated, Oscar shorts are […]