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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

How To Live and Die at the Canadian Opera Company: Roméo et Juliette and Orfeo ed Euridice in Toronto

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Stephen Costello and Kseniia Proshina in Roméo et Juliette . (Photo: Michael Cooper.) The Canadian Opera Company’s 2025–26 season opens with...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Killers: Rope and Punch

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Ephraim Birney and Daniel Neale in Rope . (Photo: Hartford Stage.) The English playwright Patrick Hamilton – best known for Angel Street , t...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

When A Film Lab Cancels an AI Show, Who Gets to Define a Cultural Commons?

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Works by the artist Rick Valicenti from the exhibit Playbot Companions . We are pleased to welcome a new critic, Jason Wang, to Critics at L...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Wild at Heart: Surviving Pynchon and Bolaño

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(Bloomsbury.) “We know that hyperbole is first of all a rhetorical figure of exaggeration but it is more fundamentally a moment of hubris. H...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Love Affairs: The History of Sound and Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

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Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal in The History of Sound . (Photo: MUBI.) In The History of Sound Lionel Worthing and David White fall in ...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Memory in Motion: Laurence Lemieux’s Anne

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Laurence Lemieux in Anne : "...lives linger and ripple forward." (Photo: Jeremy Mimnagh.) Laurence Lemieux’s Anne is a work of el...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

It’s Elementary: Gaston Bachelard, An Intellectual Biography

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(Reaktion Books, University of Chicago Press.) “An element, we take it, is a body into which other bodies may be analyzed, present in them p...