Month: January 2016

Book Review: “Les Diaboliques” — An Essential Hidden Dimension in French Literature

January 31, 2016
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In “Les Diaboliques” readers must expect quite a lot of crime and some misogyny as well.

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Fuse Coming Attractions: January 31 through February 9 —What Will Light Your Fire This Week

January 31, 2016
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, theater, dance, music, visual arts, and author events for the coming week.

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Dance Review: Dada Masilo’s “Swan Lake” — An Entertainment Full of Heart and Art

January 31, 2016
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South African choreographer Dada Masilo goes even further into the Swan Lake fantasy: here, the characters, men and women, are all swans.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Nice Fish” — An Amusingly Big Catch

January 29, 2016
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Nice Fish serves up a deliciously droll brand of American existentialism.

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Film Review: Acknowledging Jean Epstein — Brilliant Maverick Filmmaker and Critic

January 29, 2016
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Jean Epstein’s body of work is full of pleasures and surprises: this vigorous director broke ground for filmmakers and cinematic movements to come.

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Book Review: “Symphony for the City of the Dead” — On Art and Human Survival

January 28, 2016
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M. T. Anderson writes with a compellingly dark tone and a keen eye for characterization worthy of adult readership.

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Poetry Review: “Zone: Selected Poems” — Reproducing the Music of Guillaume Apollinaire

January 27, 2016
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Whenever there is a choice to be made between meaning and melody, the translator tends to opt for the latter.

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Visual Arts Review: “Drawing Redefined” — Philosophically Speaking

January 27, 2016
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Put simply, this is a drawing show without drawings.

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Album Review: Bertrand plays Dutilleux and Debussy plus Mendelssohn Symphonies nos. 3 & 4 (Harmonia mundi), and Forsythe sings Handel (Avie)

January 26, 2016
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Three new classical music albums: two are superior, one is a bit of a mixed bag.

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Fuse Concert Review: Orchestre National de France at Symphony Hall

January 25, 2016
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My snoring neighbor left during intermission (he was roused a bit when the musical vigor picked up in the finale of the Mozart).

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