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Another placard for Ben Shahn
The painting I’ve been coming back to most religiously since returning from the Ben Shahn exhibit at the Jewish Museum is “New York, 1947.” What I most…
Oct 18
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Tomas Unger
Three drivers
We’ve heard many stories of urban blight and social anomie—whether at the periphery or the centers of power of this country—these last few years, but…
Oct 13
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Tomas Unger
Music and full moon, Boston
Today I sat in a church in Boston called the Old South Church—the quaintness of this town—for an Indian classical concert, the Mohan brothers on sarod…
Oct 6
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Tomas Unger
September 2025
Chekhov’s Bishop
A friend with a gift for inspired improvisations visited my Shakespeare class last year as a guest speaker, taking Hamlet as his subject and—as one…
Sep 28
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Tomas Unger
A River, a Well
I didn’t make it to Bridgeport for a concert last week as planned, but I’ve been down by the river with Susan Tedeschi as she sings:
Sep 21
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Tomas Unger
Uncertainty and Brutality
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Sep 11
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Tomas Unger
The Odyssey, a reunion
When Odysseus and his shipmates risk that vaunted passage to the underworld in Book Eleven of the Odyssey, both his ill-starred companion Elpenor (who…
Sep 5
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Tomas Unger
August 2025
Two essays by Victor Heringer
Here are translations from the Portuguese of two essays by Victor Heringer.
Aug 28
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Tomas Unger
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