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	<copyright>&#xA9; 2010 Michael Miller</copyright>
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		<title>Derek Katz, Janáček: Beyond the Borders</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/08/derek-katz-janacek-beyond-the-borders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael V. Pisani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Czech nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leoš Janáček]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you first became aware of the composer Leoš Janáček while seeing or hearing one of his unusual operas, operas with animal characters, moon people, or 400-year-old women, or, like me, you encountered his well-known Sinfonietta in a traditional orchestra concert, you probably instantly realized that this is a composer with his own distinctive sound and musical sensibility, neither Germanic, like Richard Strauss, Finnish, like Sibelius, or Russian, like Scriabin, to compare him with three of his immediate contemporaries. Though there are occasional echoes of Smetana and Dvořák, the nineteenth century’s two great Czech nationalists, Janáček’s music most often sounds sharply different from theirs nor does he remotely resemble his contemporaries in nearby lands. This relatively short book — about 136 page of easily readable prose — is an exploration of that sound.]]></description>
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		<title>An Opera House, Judged: Ken Woolley’s Reviewing the Performance</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/07/woolley-opera-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Architecture - Urban Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cameron Sinclair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Gehry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[functionalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jan Utzon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnson Pilton Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jørn Utzon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Woolley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rem Koolhaas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zaha Hadid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“What’s that thing?”

-A boy points out the Sydney Opera House to his grandmother, overheard on a train crossing the Harbour Bridge, 21 July 2010.

During a recent screening of Rear Window at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, I became preoccupied by the audience’s reaction. For me, Rear Window was a “gateway” film, an open door into the beautifully fraudulent world of cinema. I had not seen it for a long time, and watching a good 35mm print with an intelligent audience was a good chance to assess its true impact. In the cinematic canon, if such a thing exists, Rear Window seems to have come to rest partway along the spectrum between familiar, comforting films, say, It’s a Wonderful Life or Gone With the Wind, and perpetually unnerving experiences like, to name two of the blackest noirs I’ve ever seen, Scarlet Street or Detour. Films in the former category tend to generate formulaic responses which paper over any disturbing themes, and allow the work to be arranged as part of the cultural furniture. Films from the bad part of town, by contrast, refuse enclosure in a tidy package. Beyond whatever unsavory aspects of human nature they might reveal, these disturbing films demand to be viewed at 1:1 scale, as though for the first time, every time (this is not a simple distinction between blanc et noir, when Swing Time screened at the Gallery the week after Rear Window, any stirrings of featherbed nostalgia among the audience were quickly overcome in the presence of 103 minutes of sublime cinematic bliss). Rear Window retains characteristics of each extreme. Jimmy Stewart’s voyeurism now seems relatively innocent, at least compared to what people are into these days. The audience reacted to his obsessive nosiness with the same sighing, nostalgic little titters emitted by a gaggle of thirty five year olds watching The Breakfast Club. At the same time, certain moments of Rear Window remained shocking, particularly Stewart’s almost brutal coldness to Grace Kelly. Perhaps every classic film might be found somewhere along this imaginary line between Scarlett’s Tara and Ann Savage’s consumptive cough in Detour.]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/04/the-big-short-inside-the-doomsday-machine-michael-lewis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Salz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[financial meltdown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Grab a beer and a bowl of pretzels when you sit down with The Big Short by Michael Lewis. You’re not just reading a book, you’re going to a game – a big, ugly, but oh-so exciting game. Lewis reports the causes of the current financial disaster with all the passion, pacing and testosterone of John Madden calling NFL plays – not surprising from the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball. He makes a complicated story easy to understand (most of the time) and takes us inside the heads, souls and maneuverings of several fascinating players.]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Griffiths&#8217; latest novel, let me tell you. Reality Street Editions, Hastings, 2008</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/04/paul-griffiths-novel-let-me-tell-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hamlet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ophelia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Griffiths]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Griffiths' most recent novel, let me tell you, is a spare work of engulfing mystery and power, although its technique is highly conceptual: he has set himself the task of telling Ophelia's story from her own point of view, using no more than the 483-word vocabulary Shakespeare allotted her in Hamlet. This is hardly the first time a modern writer has attempted to scatter new seeds in this corner of Shakespeare's garden, but few have approached it with Griffith's fluid imagination and verbal sophistication, a talent he has developed as much from his career as a music critic and historian as in the role of a literary man. Even a naive reader will be captivated by Griffiths' touching portrait of Ophelia, as she grows up in an ensnaring web spun by the habits, desires, and social obligations of her father, her brother, the queen, the old and new kings, and, of course, the Prince. But in this case, she is no victim. With her own native ingenuity and a healthy desire to survive, she finds a way out.]]></description>
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		<title>Buy books, CDs, and DVDs at the Berkshire Bookshop.</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2010/01/berkshire-bookshop-books-cds-dvds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do your Christmas shopping at the Berkshire Bookshop: books, cds, dvds, electronics, and more. It's fast, easy, and cheap...and you help support the Berkshire Review for the Arts. Powered by Amazon.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Capture the Imagination: Original Illustration &amp; Fine Illustrated Books Bloomsbury Auctions, New York, NY, Wednesday December 9 at 2:00 pm</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/12/capture-the-imagination-original-illustration-fine-illustrated-books-bloomsbury-auctions-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomsbury Auctions announces their annual holiday sale of original illustrations and fine illustrated books on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 2:00pm. The sale will feature important works from the Golden Age of Illustration to the present day. It will commence with the artistic estate of award winning African American artist Tom Feelings, a native of Brooklyn, New York. The late Tom Feelings worked as a freelance illustrator of children’s books for over thirty years. Throughout his career, Feelings received numerous awards and honors for his outstanding portrayals of Africans and African Americans. Among the highlights of the sale is the entire collection of Feelings’ seminal 1996 work The Middle Passage ($250,000-$350,000), Caldecott Honor Book Moja Means One (1972), Now Sheba Sings the Song (1987) and Soul Looks Back in Wonder (1994).]]></description>
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		<title>The De Orbe Novo Collection: Exploration in the New World 1492-1625 &#8211; impressive sale results</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/12/de-orbe-novo-collection-new-world-bloomsbury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Age of Discovery]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bruce McKinney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomsbury's sale of the De Orbe Novo Collection: Exploration of the New World 1492-1625 is highly unusual, even unique in the history of a field which is well-populated with eccentrics. Bruce McKinney, the publisher of Americana Exchange, an online repository of book market data, put the collection together between 1992 and 2002, and he is now putting it up for auction. It consists, as he says in an article on Americana Exchange, of "mostly heartwood," that is, one of the finest contemporary collections of books concerning the exploration of the New World.]]></description>
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		<title>The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton by Iliya Troyanov</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/09/collector-of-worlds-novel-richard-francis-burton-iliya-troyanov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene HIll</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iliya Troyanov]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Burton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victorian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fabulously romantic life of Burton has been told in many a novel and many a film—from all of which Iliya Troyanov’s intelligent, vastly entertaining novel differs in crucial respects.  Readers may recall the viscerally exciting biographical film Mountains of the Moon (1990) that followed the dangerous voyage in search of the Nile’s source and the bitter quarrels over priority in discovering that source at the Geographical Society of London.  What viewers of that movie will not recall are any significantly developed characters from the indigenous peoples (what the Victorians called the natives) among whom the explorers traveled. There were a few servants whose dedication issued in sacrifice; and a few bloodthirsty attackers who executed the servants and wounded the whites—but none of these received serious treatment. Troyanov retells the story from the alternating vantage points of the white principals, above all Burton himself, and the non-English-speaking peoples through whose territories Burton voyages, whose languages he learns with incredible facility. As he seeks to understand them, they quizzically seek to fathom his motives and beliefs. The drama arises not so much from scenery and danger as from the exciting, often droll volleying of blindness and insight between the Englishman and the Asians and Africans whom he at once fascinates and bewilders.]]></description>
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		<title>It’s All in the Presentation: A New Look at Schopenhauer</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/06/presntationnew-look-at-schopenhauer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Seth Lachterman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wagner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pessimism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schopenhauer’s saying that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will” has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others.

—Albert Einstein, The World as I See It (1940)]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomsbury Auctions No Reserve Bibliophile Sale on Tuesday June 30, at 2:00 pm</title>
		<link>http://berkshirereview.net/2009/06/bloomsbury-auctions-no-reserve-bibliophile-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Featuring property from Heritage Book Shop, Colonial Williamsburg and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition Friday, 26 June, 10am to 5pm Monday, 29 June, 10am to 5pm Tuesday, 30 June, 10am to 1pm Click here for online catalogue. Featuring: 34. CONRAD, Joseph. The Works. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page &#38; Company, 1920-1928. 24 vols. [...]]]></description>
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