FROM THE MAGAZINE

March 2022

Book Review

A gay fandango

Joie de Vivre by Paul Bailey reviewed

By Timothy Mo

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Book Review

Fall and decline

After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport reviewed

By Harry Mount

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Book Review

Our enemy’s enemy

Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach reviewed

By Andrew Stuttaford

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Book Review

For whom the bell tolls

Hemingway’s Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian reviewed

By Anne Margaret Daniel

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Books

I’m a Latinx person of letters

The POC victim narrative is a systemic problem

By Alex Perez

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Music

Sibelius speaks

A new recording of a rare piece by Jean Sibelius is out

By Jacob Heilbrunn

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Exhibitions

Precarious and thrilling

Milton Avery was able to carve out his own path, distinct from modernism’s march through history

By Andrew L. Shea

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Music

Carnegie plus one

After 130 years, Carnegie Hall decided it could use a virtual stage

By James Panero

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Art

Going Greco-Roman in Boston

What Would Seneca Do?

By Franklin Einspruch

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Theater

Swing for me

The experience of seeing George Furth and Stephen Sondheim’s Company is something like inadvertently joining a swingers’ party

By Robert S. Erickson

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Film

Naples and nurture

The Hand of God reviewed

By Alex Perez

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Film

Witches brew

The Tragedy of Macbeth reviewed

By Ernest Hilbert

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Podcasts

Crazed and confused

The dark, strange, twisted and irrational moments of American history aren’t just fringe tales

By Jessa Crispin

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