Category: Guest Posts
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Guest Post: Ithaca Diaries author Anita Harris interviewed on NPR’s “Here and Now”
In an interview with Lisa Mullins on “Here and Now” a daily program of National Public Radio, author Anita Harris reflected on how her college years shaped her career path. The interview focused on Harris’s book, Ithaca Diaries, a memoir and social history of her years at Cornell University in the 1960s.
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Guest Opera Post: Rachel Yurman on “The Death of Klinghoffer” Controversy
The Metropolitan Opera’s recent announcement that it would produce the “The Death of Klinghoffer” led to a nasty, noisy, public debate focused on charges of antisemitism. Some music journalists reveled in the attention and in the moment of relevance for a 400-year-old form. Cambridge critic Rachel Yurman, however, was incensed by the assault, and embarrassed…
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Rachel Yurman: Seeing Turner & the Sea at the Peabody Essex Museum
The Turner exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem feels substantial yet doesn’t overwhelm, and its efforts to contextualize Turner through the work of others are instructive….A rare chance to see a broad range of work, through August, 2014.
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Guest Post: Mark Orton Reviews Greenwald, No Place To Hide
Mark Orton reviews Glenn Greenwald’s book on Edward Snowdon’s controversial revelations about surveillance in the US.