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Bill Marx

Apr 302013
 
Fuse Book Commentary: Two Cheers for British Poet, Book Artist, and Visionary William Blake

Susanne M. Sklar’s study is the best exploration of William Blake’s miraculously bewildering masterpiece that I know of — thoughtful, scholarly, imaginative, and supremely sympathetic to the poet’s ornery complexity as well as his capacity to inspire wonder.

Apr 012013
 
Why You Should Support The Arts Fuse

If we are not diligent in maintaining high editorial standards, arts coverage will morph into misshapen forms of infotainment and advertising. Once those monstrosities are set in profitable stone, quality arts criticism and the arts will face a problematic future.

Mar 292013
 
Fuse Interview with Peter Wortsman: The German Imagination of Fear

“There is a difference between blood and guts, as celebrated in the current vogue of horror-slasher flicks, and the capacity of the darkest of the Grimms’ tales to pierce the thin skin of civility and mainline the dark caverns of the collective unconscious.”

Mar 102013
 
Fuse Stage Interview: Turf Wars — "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Clybourne Park"

“Clybourne Park” was expressly written to be in conversation with Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.” The former gives us a new perspective — actually new perspectives — on the latter.