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AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: THE HEADY SUBLIMATIONS OF REDISCOVERED PHOTOGRAPHER F. HOLLAND DAY
A naked boy stands at the edge of the woods, butt twisted toward the camera. The weeds in the foreground
Bringing Out the Dead
If the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) were a repertory company in the old sense of the term, if like the
Durer is in the Details
Last year's swarm of millennial retrospectives put a peculiar emphasis on Gutenberg's invention of moveable type, as if it prefigured
Living History
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the interest of objectivity, this review was edited by the Arts feature editor, Christina Rosenberger, and not
A bedrock of house music: One of the dons of the U.K. house music scene comes to Boston
MUSIC JOHN DIGWEED Jan. 27 Axis Were there any chairs at Axis, DJ John Digweed would have had the audience
Album Review: Listen Up, It's Lockgroove
Lockgroove was formed in 1996 and has been a regular at local clubs for years. Both the Boston Phoenix and
Album Review: Rainbow by Mariah Carey
Listening to Rainbow, Mariah Carey's seventh album, it's clear that the best reason to rock this New Year's will be
Album Review: Vultures: The Best of What Beck Does Best
"Beck" is a magic word. Beck, beck bananna-nanna pho pheck; Beck. The Pied Piper of post-grunge white boys everywhere, Beck
Album Review: The Singles Collect and The B-Sides Collect by Skinny Puppy
Where Nine Inch Nails are black, Skinny Puppy were brown. They had an industrial sound but Canadian accents, guilt but
Album Review: Adios by KMFDM
KMFDM, influential all-caps band, burr in the saddle of Republicans everywhere, has perhaps said goodbye. At least their recent album,
Wannabe Jabberwocky
GIRLS ON THE RUN: A POEM By John Ashbery Farrar, Straus and Giroux $20, 55 pp. Not since I was
Forget Action Movies, This is...Poetry?
LOVE, CHUEKHOV Directed by Dominick Jones At the Loeb Mainstage Feb.22 Tommy Lee Jones '69 is not a convincing consumptive.
Building Keeps Out the Cold: Ibsen Takes Center Stage at A.R.T.
THE MASTER BUILDER Directed by Kate Whoriskey At the A.R.T. Through Mar. 21 When the American Repertory Theatre puts up
In The Absence of Angst
VITA NOVA by Louise Gluck Ecco Press 51 pp., $22 Anti-sexual and suicidal, female American poets often fall into the
Zbigniew H. Dies, a Master
ELEGY FOR THE DEPARTURE AND OTHER POEMS by Zbigniew Herbert Ecco Press 132 pp., $24 Really, really, I recommend that
