Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Latest in Visual Arts
Music Interview: “Going to the Place That’s the Best” — Norman Greenbaum Returns Home to Malden
The hit 1969 song “The Spirit in the Sky” by Malden’s own Norman Greenbaum is the inspiration for one of several new works of public art.
Latest in Music
Blues Album Review: Jimmy “Duck” Holmes’ “Cypress Grove” — Old Fuses With New
In Cypress Grove, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes’ deep Bentonia guitar remains pure and present, while his vocals, which have never sounded better, are solid and vibrant throughout.
Latest in Dance
Dance Review: Fernanda Ghi Dance Company — Passion, Fury, and Enigma
Black + White from the Fernanda Ghi Dance Company was provocative, dramatic, and oh-so-mysterious.
Latest in Television
WATCH CLOSELY: “El Camino” — Epilogue for an Anti-Hero
Like Breaking Bad, El Camino subtly suggests that justice is a relative concept.
Latest in Books
Literary Appreciation: The Late Harold Bloom — Pursuer of “Difficult Pleasures”
“What is the function of literary criticism in a Disinformation Age? Read, reread, describe, evaluate, appreciate: that is the art of literary criticism for the present time.” — Harold Bloom
Latest in Theater
Theater Review: A Shattering “Slave Play” Rattles Broadway
Jeremy O. Harris’s bold new play is wildly provocative and hysterically funny.
Latest in Film
Film Review: At BUFF-o-WEEN — The “Blood & Flesh” of Al Adamson, King of the Shoestring Budget
“They were pieces of shit when we shot ‘em, but later on they became relics.”
Latest in Food
Book Feature: Joan Nathan — Sitting at “King Solomon’s Table”
There are 170 recipes in King Solomon’s Table . Joan Nathan, a sort of culinary archeologist, tracks down the details of their origins to Biblical times.
Read the Latest
Film Review: “Parasite” — Notes from the Underclass Underground
Parasite’s powerful vision of the existentially downtrodden offers equal nods to Karl Marx and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Author Interview: Boston’s Poet Laureate — Porsha Olayiwola
“I wrote those poems because I think people need to read the truth and to hear the truth about romantic sensibilities between gay people.”
Author Interview: Tim O’Brien — The Sound of a Father’s Voice
I wanted to give my kids this gift of a book about them and for them.
Book Interview: The Late Harold Bloom Talks Religion
Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here’s an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.
Book Review: “Know My Name: a memoir’ — Required Reading
No author has addressed the issue of sexual assault so much on her own terms, and in such a personal and powerful way.