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Kittel and Company Whorls Fiddlestick Music/Compass There are legions of perfectly competent musicians,...

  I’ve not written a Cranky Notions column in a while because I’ve grown weary of the Internet “noise” level. I wish Trump was the only f...

Crash to Creativity: The New Deal in Vermont (through Nov. 4, 2018) Thinking about Extinction and other Droll Things: ...

National Museum of African Art Washington, DC Placed here b/c Achebe was once on the UMass faculty   Cli...

Appalatin, Vida If you want more ammunition to defend multiculturalism, a few tracks from Appalatin ought to...

OHIO (August 2018) Stephen Markley Simon and Schuster, 496 pages. ★★★ ★★ One of my college students recently said to me, “I h...

The Idiot (2017) By Elif Batuman Penguin, 423 pages. ★★★ The Idiot was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and I can see wh...