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After all, audiences may be captivated by the psalm singing itself, but then can also find more things that capture their imagination in the observational doc.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026 -
Gallagher is also excited about Psalms of the People (Salim Nan Daoine), Jack Archer’s Gaelic-language documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2026
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In the Village Voice, where the Consumer Guide became one of the fabled alt-weekly’s go-to features from the ’70s through the ’90s, Christgau wrote like a possessed fan who breathed insight, making every capsule sound like a psychedelic sonnet.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2026
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The tracklist includes songs set in every season and a sonnet-like ode to an ice-cold Staropramen.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
21 Mar. 2026
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Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view.—
Sesshu Foster,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2023
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The pastoral was required reading in military academies.—
Gerard F. Powers,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2026
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But in their own ways, these two very different actors — she, the eccentric spirit of New Hollywood comedy; he, the golden-boy stoic of the American pastoral — were bound by something even more powerful than onscreen chemistry: generational gravity.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
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The book begins, though, with an earlier poem, written when Tennyson was just twenty.—
Kathryn Hughes,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great poem to read every (work) day of the month.—
Emily Temple,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
10 Dec. 2025
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That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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The filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and the novelist William Kennedy—author of Ironweed and founder of the New York State Writers Institute—worked together in the 1980s on Coppola’s film The Cotton Club, a crime epic.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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Spanning the final years before the events of Martin’s novels, the production is billed as a sweeping stage epic that brings to life a legendary chapter of the history of Westeros.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2026
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The Spiritual Sound Marc-André Hamelin, Found Objects / Sound Objects The Beths, Straight Line Was a Lie A year like no other, my 2025 in music was filled with joyous arias and madrigals of melancholy.—
Rolling Stone,
Rolling Stone,
29 Dec. 2025
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This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.—
Janet Kusterer,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Mar. 2025
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