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Kate McGarrigle: Heartbeat Accelerating [by Ken Tucker]
The death of singer and songwriter Kate McGarrigle, at age 63 on Jan. 18 of clear-cell sarcoma, is an awful loss. As recently as Dec. 9 of the year past, she performed with her…
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Poetic Atheism (or Bubbles) [by Jennifer Michael Hecht]
Dear Bleaders, When I was in college my French history professor presented me with his existential philosophy in the famous quotation, “Life is a tragedy – Hurrah!” which quote he attributed to the Enlightenment…
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Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra and All That Jazz (by Laura Orem)
Ah, synchronicity! Yesterday, Terence Winch posted this excellent piece about the connection between the Irish and the Jews in song writing. Today, I want to write a bit about poetry and Irish folk music. Ireland's…
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XI. The 30 Films of Akira Kurosawa: Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low) [1963] (by Lewis Saul)
Ed note: For the next several weeks, composer and film aficionado Lewis Saul has agreed to supply us with in-depth commentary about the films of Akira Kurosawa, now showing in an extended festival at…
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Attention Must Be Paid [by Brad Leithauser]
It stares back at you, that singular and signal creature: a poem on a page.What is the very first message it conveys? For it seems you're somehow already in touch with it, even before…
