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NINA MACLAUGHLIN

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Against interpretation

Hallelujah the Hills get litr’y with it
To file Hallelujah the Hills under “literary rock” would be, according to frontman Ryan Walsh, an insult to literature and an insult to rock. Hallelujah the Hills, "Wave Backwards to Massachusetts" (mp3)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 12, 2007

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La Maison de Nina/Nina’s Home

A precise and weighty drama
More than anything, the film is a portrait of how children deal with such grief, through violence, silence, music, and prayer.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  June 06, 2007

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Hermes’s boner

New film queers The Odyssey
The Odyssey is the epic that's launched a thousand adaptations.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 09, 2007

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The Odyssey

A queer take on the Dead White Male
As far as Dead White Males go, Homer ranks as grandfather to them all.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  May 09, 2007

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Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace

Cheesier than a capella Coldplay
It’s not so much the music that’s annoying about college a cappella (though it’s that, too).
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  April 25, 2007

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Rising tides

Caspian’s oceans of vocal-less sound
The 14-year-old mosh-pitters at the front of the room ricochet off one another, goofing, self-conscious, as Caspian approach the climax of their first crescendo. Caspian, "ASA" (mp3)
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  April 09, 2007

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Decivilization and its discontents

The editors of literary magazine n+1 talk about the theme of their new issue, and why the world needs their work
“Sign yourself up for the reinvigoration of civilization and, while you’re at it, n+1 .” The bar was set. Civilization was at stake.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  April 04, 2007

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Maxed Out

Drowning in debt
James Scurlock’s chilling documentary will up the anxiety of even the most responsible bill payer.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 21, 2007

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In Bods we trust

Kennedy’s new book explores the first F-to-M sex change
Issues of identity have captivated Somerville author Pagan Kennedy since her days as an Allstonite ’zine pioneer back in the mid ’80s.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 14, 2007

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Choose your own adventure

Pencils, books, and peg legs? A new writing center is coming to town, and it’s calling your inner child.  
This fall, Boston is slated to become the seventh chapter of the youth writing organization founded by Dave Eggers in 2002.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 15, 2007

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The who behind What

Podcast: Dave Eggers, Samantha Power, and Valentino Achak Deng discuss What Is the What
Listen to a discussion with Dave Eggers, Samantha Power, and Valentino Achak Deng, recorded at Harvard's Memorial Hall on February 26, 2007
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 06, 2007

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Sorrow floats

Chris Adrian reckons with human suffering in his new book The Children’s Hospital
Chris Adrian is trying to figure out how to bring people back to life.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  March 02, 2007

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Close to Home

Absorbing, informative
The front lines are not on battlefields but on buses, street corners, and crowded Jerusalem marketplaces in this drama.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 28, 2007

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Grub Street names its first book-prize winner

World of words
The obvious part of Grub Street’s two-fold mission is to get Boston writing, something the independent writing center has succeeded in doing through workshops and classes for the past 10 years.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 14, 2007

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Oscar Nominated Shorts

Boring
Do these live-action and animated shorts really represent the best of the year?
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 14, 2007

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Uses of Heidi Julavits

Founding editor of the Believer on reading, writing, and response
Someone recently told Heidi Julavits that she’ll be remembered most for a Believer essay that appeared in the magazine’s March 2003 debut issue.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 14, 2007

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Bookie joint

Author reflects on the taste of reindeer blood and other things that thrive in the cold
Vendela Vida drank reindeer blood in the living room of a Sami healer on her third trip to Lapland.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 14, 2007

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Sketchy business model

Drawn from life
Twenty-three year old Molly Crabapple got bored posing nude for art classes.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  February 07, 2007

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Disappearances

Peacocks, prognostication, potatoes
The misty fields and forests and the rolling hills and twisting creeks of Kingdom County in Vermont prove to be as much a character as Kris Kristofferson’s feisty, headstrong Quebec Bill in the third installment of Jay Craven’s trilogy based on novels by Howard Frank Moser.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 31, 2007

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Matthew Barney: No Restraint

Bjork, jelly, and Japanese
For an artist/filmmaker best known for impenetrable, high-budget, art-gore-sex-sculpture movies, Matthew Barney comes across as a pretty approachable dude in Alison Chernick’s documentary about his Drawing Restraint 9 .
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN  |  January 24, 2007
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