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ARTS
By Ryan J. Meehan
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Damage is the natural condition of American culture and society in the fiction of David Foster Wallace. This damage takes ...
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ARTS
By Ryan J. Meehan
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Amidst forward motion so thorough, Radiohead has mistaken leanness for fitness. Beyond mere thematic vestiges, “The King of Limbs” sheds something more local and altogether more crucial to Radiohead’s generation-spanning success as a premiere creative force in mainstream music: pop sensibility.
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ARTS
By Ryan J. Meehan
Monday, December 20, 2010
Ultimately, the moments where “Inland Empire” crystallizes are too few and far between to justify a structure whose inaccessibility and string of logistical woes hamper what would otherwise be a genuinely compelling theatrical experience.
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ARTS
By Ryan J. Meehan
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
“But I didn’t do anything!” wails the hapless Larry Gopnik, over and over, in an increasingly hysterical register, throughout the ...
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ARTS
By Ryan J. Meehan
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
If a culture reflects its subjects, it’s more than appropriate that culture in 2010 was more miasma than movement. From ...
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ARTS
By Ryan J. Meehan
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Discourse on contemporary poetry tends to revolve around the question of crisis; not as to whether there is a crisis, ...
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ARTS
By Ryan J. Meehan
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Internationally acclaimed Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa arrives at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) this Sunday at 7:00 p.m. to present ...
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ARTS
By Ryan J. Meehan
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Wildly experimental, their music synthesized—through entropy, violence, parody, and a half-ironic sense of the divine.
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ARTS
By Rachel A. Burns, Jeffrey W. Feldman, Ama R. Francis, Jessica R. Henderson, Joshua J. Kearney, Eunice Y. Kim, Chris R. Kingston, Ali R. Leskowitz, Beryl C.D. Lipton, Monica S. Liu, Ryan J. Meehan, Antonia M.R. Peacocke, Erika P. Pierson, Bram A. Strochlic, Mark A. VanMiddlesworth, and Denise J. Xu
Friday, December 4, 2009
Arts execs take a break from ranking Radiohead vs. Spoon to rank... whatever they feel like.
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ARTS
By Ryan J. Meehan
Friday, December 4, 2009
“The Savage Detectives,” Chilean author Roberto Bolaño’s greatest novel, is a kaleidoscopic fictional autobiography—a treatise on youth, love, literature and ...
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