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Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Dennis Harvey, Lynn Rapoport, and Sara Maria Vizcarrondo. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. OPENING Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away The fanciful, high-flying circus troupe hits...

A Survey of Writers on Contemporary Writers Listening to writers read and discuss their work at Newtonville Books, the bookstore my wife and I own outside Boston, I began to wonder which living, contemporary writers held the most influence over their...

August 13 In History 1311: Birthdate of King Alfonso XI of Castile. During his reign, in 1348, Alfonso issued decrees prohibiting Jews from charging interest when lending money and prohibiting them from collecting unpaid debts.  (The same rules applied...

And by “best” we mean “our favorites.” Here are our picks for the raddest books published this year so far! Leave your faves in the comments. Above Us Only Sky by Michele Young-Stone I bought this book for a friend, but then ended up stealing it as...

THE ODD THING about literary “realism” is that it is not a descriptive term at all, but a period: roughly 1830–1895, from Stendhal’s The Red and the Black to Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. Many classics of 19th-century realism would be conspicuously ruled...