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Arts Review

Published
November 10, 2019

A nameless boy has much to deal with in this understated and moving debut novel

In Dave Patterson's 'Soon the Light Will Be Perfect,' the 12-year-old narrator tries to make sense of his mother's illness, his father's job instability and other complexities of approaching adulthood.
Published
November 4, 2019

Concert review: PSO’s Eckart Preu offers understated take on classical standards

Better known for unusual repertory choices, the Portland orchestra's new conductor turns to the canon.
Published
November 3, 2019

‘Precious and Adored’ offers century-old love letters with a difference

The book gathers 30 years of intimate letters that chronicle a passionate love affair between two women at a time such relationships were kept mum.
Published
November 3, 2019

Art review: USM exhibit should spark a conversation about Modernism

'Contemporary Responses to Modernism' features 13 artists with ties to New England.
Published
October 27, 2019

Theater review: Portland Stage puts on world premiere of ‘Read to Me’

The play employs imaginatively conceived physical and literary mechanisms to tell the story of the last days of a terminally ill child.

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Published
October 27, 2019

A comedy about Nazis that’s actually funny?

But 'Jojo Rabbit' is also deadly serious.
Published
October 27, 2019

A woman is brutally murdered in the aisles of a big box store

Jack McMorrow witnesses the seemingly senseless murder, and as clues pile up in 'Random Act,' the 12th in Gerry Boyle's McMorrow series, he begins to wonder if it's as random as it seemed.
Published
October 27, 2019

P.T. Barnum, the showman and grifter who held up a funhouse mirror to America

"He created acts so famous that people still know of them. Tom Thumb, Chang and Eng, even animal acts like Jumbo the elephant."
Published
October 27, 2019

Art review: PMA accurately portrays N.C. Wyeth as having range – but being racist?

At least some of the commentary accompanying the works in 'New Perspectives' seems unfounded.
Published
October 26, 2019

Classical review: Portland Early Music Festival offers polished performances

The weekend-long event opens with an appealing overview of vocal works by Claudio Monteverdi.